[f. Gr. λόφο-ς crest + -φόρ-ος bearing. (In sense 2, ad. mod.L. Lophophorus.)]
1. Zool. In Polyzoa, the oral disc at the free end of the polypide, bearing the tentacles.
1850. Allman, in Brit. Assoc. Rept. (1851), 307. The sort of disc or stage which surrounds the mouth and bears the tentacula, I have called Lophophore.
1855. Eng. Cycl. Nat. Hist., III. 861/1.
1885. A. S. Pennington, Brit. Zoophytes, 19.
2. A bird with crested crown and brilliant plumage, belonging to the genus Lophophorus of the family Phasianidæ. [Cf. F. lophophore.]
1883. Fortn. Rev., 1 Sept., 348. One of her dresses … made up principally of the feathers of the bright-plumaged lophophore.
1884. Western Daily Press, 29 May, 3/7. A butterfly, made of the feathers of the lophophore.
Hence Lophophoral a., of or pertaining to a lophophore (sense 1).
1890. in Century Dict.; and in other recent Dicts.
