veliger|veligers in English
noun
larval stage of some mollusks when developing the velum
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1. Most marine Bivalves go through a trochophore stage before turning into a free-swimming veliger larva.
2. We observed an Avicularium stab a newly settled veliger crawling on the colony and saw the lophophore of a bryozoan take in a swimming veliger, causing the latter to retract its velum and sink to the bottom of the culture dish