Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various colonial hydroids of the genus Sertularia, having stalkless polyps arranged in pairs along a branching stem.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to the genus Sertularia in a broad sense, or having its characters. Also
sertularidan . - noun A member of the group to which the genus Sertularia belongs.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) Any species of Sertularia, or of
Sertularidæ , a family of hydroids having branched chitinous stems and simple sessile hydrothecæ. Also used adjectively.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any species of genus Sertularella, or of family Sertulariidae,
hydroids having branched chitinous stems and simple sessilehydrothecae .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun feathery colony of long-branched stems bearing stalkless paired polyps
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[From New Latin Sertulāria, genus name, from Latin sertula, diminutive of serta, garland, from feminine past participle of serere, to join; see ser- in Indo-European roots.]
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From New Latin sertularia ("a former genus name") + -an
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Examples
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This special sertularian grows up right in my pool on stones or often on seaweeds, but I have here (Fig. 5) another and much smaller one which lives literally in millions hanging its cups downwards.
Young Folks' Library, Volume XI (of 20) Wonders of Earth, Sea and Sky Various 1880
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Ah! you will say, you are now showing me a polyp like those on the sertularian tree.
Young Folks' Library, Volume XI (of 20) Wonders of Earth, Sea and Sky Various 1880
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