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porifera
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun porifera has 1 sense
- porifera(n = noun.animal) phylum porifera - coextensive with the subkingdom Parazoa: sponges; Array is a member of parazoa, subkingdom parazoa
is a kind of phylum
CIDE DICTIONARY
porifera, n. pl. [NL., fr. L. porus pore + ferre to bear.].
A grand division of the Invertebrata, including the sponges; -- called also Spongiæ , Spongida , and Spongiozoa . The principal divisions are Calcispongiæ, Keratosa or Fibrospongiæ, and Silicea. [1913 Webster]
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