English Explanatory Dictionary

veliger

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The planktonic larva of many kinds of marine and freshwater gastropod molluscs, as well as most bivalve molluscs.

Word forms

veliger veligers

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin vēliger (“sail-bearing”).

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