phylum porifera

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   coextensive with the subkingdom Parazoa: sponges

   SynonymsPorifera

   Broaderphylum

   Part ofParazoa

Questions about phylum porifera

What does phylum porifera mean?

phylum porifera means "coextensive with the subkingdom Parazoa: sponges".

What is another word for phylum porifera?

Close synonyms include Porifera. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is phylum porifera a common word?

phylum porifera is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.