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planula
Definition: the flat ciliated free-swimming larva of hydrozoan coelenterates
Definition: In embryonic development, a vesicle filled with fluid, formed from the morula by the divergence of its cells in such a manner as to give rise to a central space, around which the cells arrange themselves as an envelope; an embryonic form intermediate between the morula and gastrula.