Relating to or belonging to the Calycophora, a group of marine organisms characterized by cup-bearing structures.
Derived from calycophora with the suffix -an (meaning 'of or relating to'). This adjectival form allows description of features or characteristics associated with this zoological class.
Marine biologists studying jellyfish relatives and siphonophores—strange drifting colonial creatures—would have used 'calycophoran' to describe them in older scientific literature. These creatures are genuinely alien!
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