acraspeda

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acraspeda pl (plural only)

  1. (zoology) A group of acalephs that includes most of the larger jellyfish
    • 1893, William Keith Brooks, Salpa in Its Relation to the Evolution of Life, page 202:
      It may be that the pelagic habit of the acraspeda is secondary, and while the polyps, the craspedota and the acraspeda have unquestionably had a common starting point in a free pelagic ancestor, it is quite possible that […]
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