brachiopod

Speech parts

1. brachiopod - Noun

2. brachiopod - Adjective

Meaning

One of the Brachiopoda, or its shell.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

lampshell lamp shell brachiopodous division phylum annelid phyla found worldwide

Hypernyms

invertebrate

Examples

Very few species have survived unchanged. There's one called lingula, which is a little shellfish, a little brachiopod about the size of my fingernail, that has survived for 500 million years, but it's survived by being unobtrusive and doing nothing, and you can't accuse human beings of that. David Attenborough

Ropalonaria venosa, an etching trace fossil of a Late Ordovician ctenostome bryozoan on a strophomenid brachiopod valve; Cincinnatian of southeastern Indiana. citation Phaenopora superba, a ptilodictyine bryozoan from the Silurian of Ohio. Source: Internet

Syringothyris sp.; a spiriferid brachiopod from the Logan Formation (Lower Carboniferous) of Wooster, Ohio (internal mold). Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

brachiopatagium brachiophore brachioplasty brachiopoda brachiopodous brachiopoid