scyphistoma
English
Etymology
Ancient Greek [Term?] (“cup”) + stoma
Noun
scyphistoma (plural scyphistomas or scyphistomae or scyphistomata)
- (zoology) The young attached larva of Discophora in the stage when it resembles a hydroid, or actinian.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “scyphistoma”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)