bryozoan

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Some have identified the creature as perhaps a form of bryozoan, cnidarian, slime mold, and some creature from outer space.

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  1. noun 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.
  2. adjective Of or belonging to the Bryozoa.

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  • Some have identified the creature as perhaps a form of bryozoan, cnidarian, slime mold, and some creature from outer space. —  Spero News
  • Scanning electron microscope photos of these minutely sculptured cupuladriid bryozoan fossils tell paleontologists whether the animal reproduced sexually or clonally. —  Mongabay.com News
 

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  1. From New Latin Bryozōa, phylum name : bryo- + Greek zōia, pl. of zōion, animal; see -zoon.
 

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