Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A feeding zooid in a hydroid colony having an oral opening surrounded by tentacles.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A polypite; the fundamental structural element in Hydrozoa.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) One of the nutritive zooids of a hydroid colony. Also applied to the proboscis or manubrium of a hydroid medusa. See
Illust. ofhydroidea .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun zoology An individual
polyp of ahydroid colony
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Campanularia) the tentacles may be completely absorbed into the body of the hydranth from which they originally sprang.
Popular Science Monthly Oct, Nov, Dec, 1915 — Volume 86 Anonymous
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Campanularia) the tentacles may be completely absorbed into the body of the hydranth from which they originally sprang.
The Scientific Monthly, October-December 1915 Scientific Monthly 1915
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An 'wasn't it thim same polace crathurs, too, I'm askin' ye, as took our rainwather cistern away along of the fevers breakin 'out, they made bold to say, the desaivin' crathers, -- an 'me a-niver havin' me washin 'white a-since, for ye'll aisy see why, usin' the muddy wather as comes from that hydranth yirselves! "
The Angel of the Tenement George Madden Martin 1901
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