Zool. [mod.L., a. Gr. Κυδίππη proper name of a Nereid.] A typical genus of Ctenophora, of which one beautiful species, C. pilosa, is common in the British Seas. Hence Cydippian a.; Cydippid, a ctenophoran of the family of Cydippe.
1835–6. Todd, Cycl. Anat., I. 39/1.
1846. Patterson, Zool., 39. We took a dead Cydippe, and … exposed it to the sun.
1855. Gosse, Marine Zool., I. 39. The Beroes and Cydippes … look like tiny melons of glass, down whose bodies run bands or meridian-lines of paddles.
1860. Agassiz, Nat. Hist. U. S., III. 184. I merely infer its Cydippian relationship from the position of the tentacles.
1888. Rolleston & Jackson, Anim. Life, 721. The larva is at first a Cydippid-form.
