combjelly

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A form of comb jelly — A jelly-like marine animal of the phylum Ctenophora; a ctenophore.

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Meanings

nouncombjelly (plural combjellies)

plural combjellies

  1. alternativeAlternative spelling of comb jelly.

    Ctenophora = Combjellies.

    1875, P. H. P. S., “Haeckel’s History of Creation”, in Nature, volume 13, page 122
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    Thin processes of Sertoli cells occur between spermatogenic cells of the ctenophore, combjelly (Beroe ovata; Franc, 1973).

    1995, Sardul S. Guraya, “The Comparative Cell Biology of Accessory Somatic (or Sertoli) Cells in the Animal Testis”, in International Review of Cytology, volume 160, page 169

    […]some of the petalonameans share similarities with living ctenophores, the combjellies[…].

    2007, Mikhail A. Fedonkin et al., The Rise of Animals, Johns Hopkins University Press, →ISBN, page 239

Origin

From comb + jelly.

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