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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A larva of a scyphozoan, consisting of an elongated and deeply constricted polyp that successively splits off minute, free-swimming medusas.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A generic name applied by Sars to certain Polyps, under a misapprehension; hence, the actinula or fixed embryo of some hydrozoans, as a discophoran, which multiplies agamogenetically by budding, and gives rise to permanent colonies of hydriform polyps; an ephyra. See Scyphomedusæ, and cut under strobila. Also scyphistome, scyphostome.
Wiktionary
- n. zoology The young attached larva of Discophora in the stage when it resembles a hydroid, or actinian.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Zoöl.) The young attached larva of Discophora in the stage when it resembles a hydroid, or actinian.
Etymologies
- From Ancient Greek a cup + the mouth. (Wiktionary)
- New Latin : Greek skuphos, cup + Greek stoma, mouth. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
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