tornaria

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   the transparent, free-swimming larva of an acorn worm or another enteropneust hemichordate

   The biologist identified the drifting tornaria by its ciliated bands and transparent body.

From New Latin Tornaria, built on Latin tornus ("lathe, turning tool") with the zoological suffix -aria. The name alludes to the larva's rounded, turning form. Both tornarias and tornariae are recorded plurals.

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