n.
Any of the small, wormlike marine animals of the phylum Phoronida, inhabiting a chitinous tube and having a U-shaped digestive tract.
adj.
Of or belonging to the phylum Phoronida.
[From New Latin Phorōnida, phylum name, from Phorōnis, type genus, probably from Latin, Phoronean, Argive (name of Io, priestess of Argos), from Phorōneus, son of Inachus, king of Argos, from Greek.]
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