Gas*trot"ri*cha (?), n. pl., [NL., fr. Gr. belly + , , hair.] Zool.

A group of small wormlike animals, having cilia on the ventral side. The group is regarded as an ancestral or synthetic one, related to rotifers and annelids.

 

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