vibraculum

noun

vi·​brac·​u·​lum

-yələm

plural vibracula

: one of the movable slender spinelike organs or parts with which bryozoans are furnished and which are specially modified zooids of nearly the same nature as avicularia

Word History

Etymology

New Latin, from Latin vibrare to shake, vibrate + -culum -cle

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