planula

noun

1. 1

   In embryonic development, a vesicle filled with fluid, formed from the morula by the divergence of its cells in such a manner as to give rise to a central space, around which the cells arrange themselves as an envelope; an embryonic form intermediate between the morula and gastrula.

2. 2

   The larva of a hydrozoan, which is free-swimming and covered in cilia.