||To*mop"te*ris (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr.
to`mos a cut + ptero`n wing (but taken to mean,
fin).] (Zoöl.) A genus of transparent marine annelids
which swim actively at the surface of the sea. They have deeply divided or
forked finlike organs (parapodia). This genus is the type of the order, or
suborder, Gymnocopa.
||To*mop"te*ris (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr.
to`mos a cut + ptero`n wing (but taken to mean,
fin).] (Zoöl.) A genus of transparent marine annelids
which swim actively at the surface of the sea. They have deeply divided or
forked finlike organs (parapodia). This genus is the type of the order, or
suborder, Gymnocopa.