Word Meanings - PHYLACTOLAEMATOUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of or pertaining to the Phylactolæma.

PHYLACTOLAEMA; PHYLACTOLAEMATA
An order of fresh-water Bryozoa in which the tentacles are arranged on a horseshoe-shaped lophophore, and the mouth is covered by an epistome. Called also Lophopoda, and hippocrepians.
PHYLACTOLAEMATOUS
Of or pertaining to the Phylactolæma.
PERTAIN
stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
PHYLACTOLEMA; PHYLACTOLEMATA
See PHYLACTOLæMA
APPERTAIN
To belong or pertain, whether by right, nature, appointment, or custom; to relate. Things appertaining to this life. Hooker. Give it unto him to whom it appertaineth. Lev. vi. 5. (more info) appartenir, fr. L. appertinere; ad + pertinere to reach