Pedicellina

noun

Ped·​i·​cel·​li·​na

: a genus (the type of the family Pedicillinidae) of colonial bryozoans in which the zooids have a bell-shaped body on a slender pedicel

Word History

Etymology

New Latin, from pedicellus + -ina

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