"Hydrosoma" is a word in ENGLISH
All the zooids of a hydroid colony collectively,
including the nutritive and reproductive zooids, and often other kinds.
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Applied to sexual zooids of hydroids, that have a saclike form and do not become free; -- opposed to phanerocodonic.
Read the complete definitionGrowing with one side adherent to a stem; -- a term applied to the lateral zooids of corals and other …
Read the complete definitionA division of Hydroidea in which the zooids are naked, or not inclosed in a capsule. See Tubularian.
Read the complete definitionIn certain hydroids, an imperfect zooid, whose special function is to produce medusoid buds. See Hydroidea, and Athecata.
Read the complete definitionAn individual zooid of a bryozoan coralline, of which there may be two or more kinds in a single colony. …
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 hydroid of the family ampanularidae, characterized by having the polyps or zooids inclosed in bell-shaped calicles or hydrothecae.
Read the complete definitionThe common tissue which unites the polyps or zooids of a compound anthozoan or coral. It may be soft or …
Read the complete definitionThe common tissue which unites the various zooids of a bryozoan.
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 definitionAn extensive order of rhizopods which generally have a chambered calcareous shell formed by several united zooids. Many of them …
Read the complete definitionA sexual zooid produced as a medusoid bud upon a hydroid, sometimes becoming a free hydromedusa, sometimes remaining attached. See …
Read the complete definitionThe reproductive zooids of a hydroid colony, collectively.
Read the complete definitionA sexual zooid, or medusoid bud of a hydroid; a gonophore. See Hydroidea, and Illust. of Campanularian.
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 definitionA division of Hydroidea, including those genera that secrete a stony coral, as Millepora and Stylaster. Two forms of zooids …
Read the complete definitionOne of the flat, leaflike, protective zooids, covering other zooids of certain Siphonophora.
Read the complete definitionAn independent, or partially independent, zooid of a compound animal.
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