hippocrepian

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hippocrepian (plural hippocrepians)

1. One of an order of freshwater bryozoa (Phylactolaema or Lophopoda) in which the tentacles are on a lophophore, shaped like a horseshoe.
2. A hippocrepiform.

• Hippocrepis

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