Rhopaloid
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Rhopaloid is an adjective meaning (zoology) Having a shaft or tentacle with an uneven diameter.
Meaning
(zoology) Having a shaft or tentacle with an uneven diameter.
More Meanings
- (zoology) A rhopaloid shaft or tentacle.
Example Sentences
The septa in the cardinal quadrants are thickened and rhopaloid .
The tentacles, either singly or fused, become the four rhopaloids.
A new category of heterotrichous microbasic rhopaloid nematocysts was identified in the scyphopolyps.
Stenoteles and euryteles are both rhopaloids, nematocysts characterized by an anisodiametrically dilated shaft.
Word Forms
- rhopaloids
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