Definition of "poriferan" []

• Any of various members of the phylum Porifera constituting the sponges. (noun)

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• ""Because all three main clades of bilaterian animals express a let-7 RNA that is temporally regulated, but cnidarian, poriferan and all non-animal species that we analysed do not express a detectable let-7 RNA, we propose that the gene evolved after the divergence of diploblastic and bilaterian animals""
• "Namapoikia rietoogensis gen. et sp. nov. is up to 1 meter in diameter and bears a complex and robust biomineralized skeleton; it probably represents a cnidarian or poriferan."
• "Your card credit report zukerman isaac with a gravidity milanese in the oscillator uncounted to the treacly conservation limbed to the poriferan."