Usually means: Larval form of a cnidarian.
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General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. planula: Merriam-Webster
  2. planula: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. planula: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. planula: Collins English Dictionary
  5. planula: Vocabulary.com
  6. planula: Wordnik
  7. planula: Wiktionary
  8. planula: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. planula: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. planula: Dictionary.com
  11. Planula: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Planula: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. planula: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. planula: Rhymezone
  15. Planula: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. planula: FreeDictionary.org
  17. planula: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. planula: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. planula: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. planula: Medical dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Fishkeeping glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See planulae as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (planula)

noun:  (biology) In embryonic development, a vesicle filled with fluid, formed from the morula by the divergence of its cells in such a manner as to give rise to a central space, around which the cells arrange themselves as an envelope; an embryonic form intermediate between the morula and gastrula.
noun:  (zoology) The larva of a hydrozoan, which is free-swimming and covered in cilia.

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