Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The peculiar protective envelop or hydrotheca of the hydranths of some oceanic hydrozoans, as the Siphonophora, of laminar or foliaceous character. Also called
bract .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) One of the flat, leaflike, protective zooids, covering other zooids of certain Siphonophora.
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- noun zoology One of the flat,
leaf -like,protective zooids covering other zooids of certainSiphonophora .
Etymologies
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From Ancient Greek ὕδωρ (hudōr, "water") + φύλλιον (phullion), diminutive of φύλλον (phullon, "leaf").
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