Definitions for vibraculum

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vibraculum vi·brac·u·lum

Spelling: [vahy-brak-yuh-luh m]

IPA: /vaɪˈbræk yə ləm/

Vibraculum is a 10 letter English word.

You can make 385 anagrams from letters in vibraculum (abcilmruuv).

Definitions for vibraculum

noun

1. any of the modified polyps on the surface of certain bryozoan colonies, having a long, whiplike appendage that clears away debris.

Origin of vibraculum

1850-55; New Latin, equivalent to Latin vibrā(re) to shake + -culum -cule²

Examples for vibraculum

Character: (B.) cells rhomboidal, sinuated on the outer side for the lodgment of a vibraculum.

Cells elongate, external side nearly straight, vibraculum sublateral, very prominent.

Opening of cell broad oval, pointed below; three short indistinct spines above; vibraculum large, sinus deep.

vibraculum, vī-brak′ū-lum, n. one of the long whip-like appendages of the cells of some Polyzoa:—pl.