a. Zool. [Cf. prec. and -GEROUS.] Of certain larval forms: Bearing, or furnished with, a velum.
1877. Huxley, Anat. Inv. Anim., viii. 485. It is obvious that the two have, in common with … the Annelida, the ciliated or veligerous larval form.
1880. F. M. Balfour, Comp. Embryol., I. 192. In prosobranchiate Gasteropods … the free-swimming veligerous larva may have a long existence.
