"Planoblast" is a word in ENGLISH
Any free-swimming gonophore of a hydroid; a hydroid
medusa.
Sydney, don't leave Adrian because of me.""It's more complicated than that," I said automatically."It's really not," she said. "From everything I've seen and heard, you're just afraid. You've always controlled every detail of your life. When you couldn't-like with the Alchemists-you found a way to seize back that control.""There is nothing wrong with wanting control," I snapped."Except that we can't always have it, and sometimes that is a good thing. A great thing, even," she added. "And that's how it is with Adrian. No matter how hard you try, you aren't going to be able to control your feelings for him. You can't help loving him, and so you're running away. I'm just an excuse.
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A group of Coelenterata, including the Medusae or jellyfishes, and hydroids; -- so called from the stinging power they possess. …
Read the complete definitionA kind of embryo of certain hydroids (Tubularia), having a stellate form.
Read the complete definitionApplied to sexual zooids of hydroids, that have a saclike form and do not become free; -- opposed to phanerocodonic.
Read the complete definitionIn certain hydroids, an imperfect zooid, whose special function is to produce medusoid buds. See Hydroidea, and Athecata.
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 soft tissue which unites the polyps of a compound hydroid. See Hydroidea.
Read the complete definitionThe hydroid or naked-eyed medusae. See Hydroidea.
Read the complete definitionPertaining to the interior of the stomach; -- applied to a mode of budding from the interior of the gastric …
Read the complete definitionAnimals which increase by budding, as hydroids.
Read the complete definitionA reproductive bud of a hydroid; a simple gonophore.
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 capsule developed on certain hydroids (Thecaphora), inclosing the blastostyle upon which the medusoid buds or gonophores are developed; -- …
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 numerous species of slender and delicate fossils, of the genus Graptolites and allied genera, found in the Silurian …
Read the complete definitionA group of acalephs, including the naked-eyed medusae; the hydromedusae. Most of them are known to be the free-swimming progeny …
Read the complete definitionAny small fresh-water hydroid of the genus Hydra, usually found attached to sticks, stones, etc., by a basal sucker.
Read the complete definitionAny species or marine hydroids, of the genus Hydractinia and allied genera. These hydroids form, by their rootstalks, a firm, …
Read the complete definitionOne of the nutritive zooids of a hydroid colony. Also applied to the proboscis or manubrium of a hydroid medusa. …
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