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Brachiopod

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Noun

1. brachiopod, lamp shell, lampshell

marine animal with bivalve shell having a pair of arms bearing tentacles for capturing food; found worldwide

Adjective

2. brachiopod, brachiopodous

of or belonging to the phylum Brachiopoda

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Brachiopod

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noun
any marine invertebrate animal of the phylum Brachiopoda, having a ciliated feeding organ (lophophore) and a shell consisting of dorsal and ventral valves
. Also called: lamp shell See also bryozoan

Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

Brachiopod

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noun
any of a phylum (Brachiopoda) of marine animals with hinged upper and lower shells enclosing two armlike parts with tentacles that are used for guiding minute food particles to the mouth

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Brachiopod

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n.
Any of numerous marine invertebrates of the phylum Brachiopoda, having a shell with two valves of unequal size enclosing an armlike lophophore used for feeding, and including many extinct species commonly found as fossils. Also called lampshell.

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