Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Rhabdopleura

Rhabdopleura , noun

[New Latin, from Greek "ra`bdos a rod + {not transcribed} the side.]

(Zoology) A genus of marine Bryozoa in which the tubular cells have a centralchitinous axis and the tentacles are borne on a bilobed lophophore. It is the type of the order Pterobranchia, or Podostomata