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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In the development of hydroid polyps, the stage succeeding the planula, the simple polyp having a disk of attachment at its proximal end, and at the distal end a manubrium and a circlet of tentacles. By the budding of the hydrula a branched colony is produced.

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