"Hydrophyllium" is a word in ENGLISH
One of the flat, leaflike, protective zooids,
covering other zooids of certain Siphonophora.
How can a man’s candour be seen in all its lustre unless he has a few failings to talk of? But he had an agreeable confidence that his faults were all of a generous kind—impetuous, arm-blooded, leonine; never crawling, crafty, reptilian.
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Growing with one side adherent to a stem; -- a term applied to the lateral zooids of corals and other …
Read the complete definitionOne of the small cuplike cavities, often with elevated borders, covering the surface of most corals. Each is formed by …
Read the complete definitionA kind of zooid of Siphonophora which has an elongated or even vermiform body, with one tentacle, but no mouth. …
Read the complete definitionOne of the secondary, and usually sexual, zooids produced by budding or fission from the primary zooids, in animals having …
Read the complete definitionOne of the free-swimming sexual zooids of Siphonophora.
Read the complete definitionOne of the nutritive zooids of a hydroid colony. Also applied to the proboscis or manubrium of a hydroid medusa. …
Read the complete definitionOne of the zooids of certain Siphonophora, having somewhat the form, and the essential structure, of the bell of a …
Read the complete definitionOne of the special zooids, or cells, of Bryozoa, destined to receive and develop ova; an ovicell. See Bryozoa.
Read the complete definitionAny one of numerous species of Pennatula, Pteroides, and allied genera of Alcyonaria, having a featherlike form; a sea-pen. The …
Read the complete definitionOne of the feeding or nutritive zooids of a hydroid or coral.
Read the complete definitionOne of the ordinary zooids of the Bryozoa.
Read the complete definitionOne of the feeding zooids, or polyps, of a coral, hydroid, or siphonophore; a hydranth. See Illust. of Campanularian.
Read the complete definitionOne of the individual zooids forming the compound organism of a polyzoan.
Read the complete definitionOne of the special defensive zooids of certain hydroids. They have the form of long, slender tentacles, and bear lasso …
Read the complete definitionAn asexual zooid, usually forming one of a series of larval forms in the agamic reproduction of various trematodes and …
Read the complete definitionOne of the stellate or irregular clusters of intimately united zooids which are imbedded in, or scattered over, the surface …
Read the complete definitionOne of a peculiar kind of zooids situated on the polyp-stem of certain Siphonophora. They somewhat resemble the feeding zooids, …
Read the complete definitionOne of the movable, slender, spinelike organs or parts with which certain bryozoans are furnished. They are regarded as specially …
Read the complete definitionOne of the cells or tubes which inclose the feeling zooids of Bryozoa. See Illust. of Sea Moss.
Read the complete definitionAn animal in one of its inferior stages of development, as one of the intermediate forms in alternate generation.
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