Relating to or characteristic of the Calycozoa; describing animals that possess cup-shaped or calyx-like anatomical structures.
Adjectival form of calycozoa, using the suffix -an. This allows scientists to describe characteristics of organisms in this classification without needing to reference the entire group name.
This is another example of how older scientific terminology mixed Greek body-part words with Latin endings—creating hybrid descriptors that were incredibly useful for 18th-century marine naturalists observing creatures in jars!
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