- synconoid grade
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(PORIFERA)A grade of construction intermediate between the asconoid and the leuconoid, in which each radial canal is subdivided into elongate-flagellate chambers grouped around a common excurrent channel; see leuconoid grade, asconoid grade.
Online Dictionary of Invertebrate Zoology. A.R. Maggenti and S.L. Gardne. 2005.