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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
cœnenchyma .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) The common tissue which unites the polyps or zooids of a compound anthozoan or coral. It may be soft or more or less ossified. See
coral .
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- noun zoology The common
tissue uniting thepolyps orzooids of acompound anthozoan orcoral .
Etymologies
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coen- + -enchyma
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