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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A Linnean genus of polyps, corresponding to the modern Sertulariidæ or Sertularida; the sea-firs, with small sessile lateral hydrothecæ, as S. pumila or S. abietina.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Zoöl.) A genus of delicate branching hydroids having small sessile hydrothecæ along the sides of the branches.
WordNet 3.0
- n. sessile hydroid that forms feathery colonies
Examples
“_Oldhamia antiqua_, -- a plant-like zoophyte, akin apparently to some of our recent sertularia, (See fig. 5, page 48.)”
The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed
“No more ancient organism than the _Oldhamia_ of the Lowest Irish Silurians, a plant-like zoophyte somewhat resembling our modern sertularia, has yet been detected by the geologist; though only a few months ago the researches of Mr. Salter in the ancient rocks of the Longmynd,”
The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed
“At its base, where the tide rarely falls, we find two varieties of _Lobularia digitata_, dead man's hand, the orange colored and the pale, with a species of sertularia; and the characteristic vegetable is the rough-stemmed tangle, or cuvy.”
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