Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The corm or rootstock of a fixed hydrozoan; the common base of a colony of hydroids, by which it is attached to some support.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) The rootstock or decumbent stem by which a hydroid is attached to other objects. See
Illust. underhydroidea .
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- noun zoology The
rootstock ordecumbent stem by which ahydroid is attached to other objects.
Etymologies
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Ancient Greek hydro- + ῥίζα ("root").
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