Meanings
nounparahoxozoan (plural parahoxozoans)
plural parahoxozoans
- Any marine animal of the superphylum Parahoxozoa
Thus bilaterian-like HCN channels were already present in the common parahoxozoan ancestor of bilaterians and cnidarians, at a time when the functional diversity of voltage-gated K + channels was rapidly expanding.
2015 November 11, “Functional Characterization of Cnidarian HCN Channels Points to an Early Evolution of I h”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI
Origin
- translingualParaHoxozoa
- Englishparahoxozoan
From translingual ParaHoxozoa + -an.
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APA
parahoxozoan. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/parahoxozoan
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“parahoxozoan.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/parahoxozoan. Accessed November 5, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “parahoxozoan,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/parahoxozoan.
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