Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Any of various small aquatic animals of the phylum Bryozoa that reproduce by budding and form mosslike or branching colonies permanently attached to stones or seaweed. Also called moss animal, polyzoan.
- adj. Of or belonging to the Bryozoa.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- In zoology, relating to the Bryozoa.
- n. One of the Bryozoa.
Wiktionary
- adj. zoology Pertaining to bryozoa.
- n. zoology A bryozoon.
- n. zoology A member of a bryozoan colony.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. (Zoöl.) Of or pertaining to the Bryozoa.
WordNet 3.0
- n. sessile aquatic animal forming mossy colonies of small polyps each having a curved or circular ridge bearing tentacles; attach to stones or seaweed and reproduce by budding
Etymologies
- From Bryozoa + -an (Wiktionary)
- From New Latin Bryozōa, phylum name : bryo- + Greek zōia, pl. of zōion, animal; see -zoon. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The area is underlain by extensive Pleistocene limestones with oolitic and bryozoan facies, overlaid by variable thicknesses of marl and peat, a thin porous crust which filters the surface water percolating to the aquifer.”
“El Nino induced local extinction of coral reef bryozoan species from Northern Bahia, Brazil [An article from: Biological Conservation] by F. Kelmo”
“In the Gulf of Maine, climate change and sustained overfishing may be acting synergistically, creating an environment that favors invasive species such as the green alga Codium fragile and the bryozoan Membranipora membranacea.”
“If you've ever seen a lace-like pattern of carbonate encrusting a rock or shell, you're looking at the remains of a bryozoan colony.”
“Freshwater ectoproct bryozoan some info from Wikepedia”
“Comparing these samples with modern ones, scientists have now shown that the growth of a bryozoan, a tiny animal, has increased in recent years.”
“Other projects have since collected bryozoan samples at the same site, while the Census of Marine Life has increased the flow of data over the past decade.”
“The bryozoan's seasonal growth yields growth rings, similar to a tree's”
“The organism in question is a bryozoan, a marine invertebrate that is a stationary bottom-dweller and feeds by filtering seawater.”
“The stalemate in the edrioasteroid/bryozoan war for living space continued for a while longer as the bryozoan almost completely surrounded the edrioasteroid.”
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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Living Fossils
Creatures that lived in prehistoric times and still live today (which would be most of them). Loosely interpreted to include animals like the armadillo, which is a surviving genus of a larger group...
coelacanth, horseshoe crab, gingko tree, cycad, horsetail, club moss, shark, jellyfish, giant squid, dawn redwood, cedar wood wasp, glypheoid lobsters and 20 more...
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chained_bear "There are about 8,000 living species, with several times that number of fossil forms known." (Wikipedia) Sep 1, 2008