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trochophore
1. The small, free-swimming, ciliated aquatic larva of various invertebrates, including certain mollusks and annelids.
2. The free-swimming, pear-shaped, generally translucent larval form of marine annelids, mollusks, and related invertebrates.
2. The free-swimming, pear-shaped, generally translucent larval form of marine annelids, mollusks, and related invertebrates.
Externally it has a prominent circlet of cilia, internally a complete digestive tract, a pair of excretory tubes, muscle and nerve fibers, sense organs, and a band of mesoderm.
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phoro-, phor-, -phora, -phorous, -phoresis, -phore, -phori, -phoria +
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troch-, trocho- +
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