"Zoanthodeme" is a word in ENGLISH

Applied to sexual zooids of hydroids, that have a saclike form and do not become free; -- opposed to phanerocodonic.

Growing with one side adherent to a stem; -- a term applied to the lateral zooids of corals and other …

A division of Hydroidea in which the zooids are naked, or not inclosed in a capsule. See Tubularian.

In certain hydroids, an imperfect zooid, whose special function is to produce medusoid buds. See Hydroidea, and Athecata.

An individual zooid of a bryozoan coralline, of which there may be two or more kinds in a single colony. …

One of the small cuplike cavities, often with elevated borders, covering the surface of most corals. Each is formed by …

A hydroid of the family ampanularidae, characterized by having the polyps or zooids inclosed in bell-shaped calicles or hydrothecae.

The common tissue which unites the polyps or zooids of a compound anthozoan or coral. It may be soft or …

The common tissue which unites the various zooids of a bryozoan.

A kind of zooid of Siphonophora which has an elongated or even vermiform body, with one tentacle, but no mouth. …

One of the secondary, and usually sexual, zooids produced by budding or fission from the primary zooids, in animals having …

One of the free-swimming sexual zooids of Siphonophora.

An extensive order of rhizopods which generally have a chambered calcareous shell formed by several united zooids. Many of them …

A sexual zooid produced as a medusoid bud upon a hydroid, sometimes becoming a free hydromedusa, sometimes remaining attached. See …

The reproductive zooids of a hydroid colony, collectively.

A sexual zooid, or medusoid bud of a hydroid; a gonophore. See Hydroidea, and Illust. of Campanularian.

One of the nutritive zooids of a hydroid colony. Also applied to the proboscis or manubrium of a hydroid medusa. …

A division of Hydroidea, including those genera that secrete a stony coral, as Millepora and Stylaster. Two forms of zooids …

One of the flat, leaflike, protective zooids, covering other zooids of certain Siphonophora.

All the zooids of a hydroid colony collectively, including the nutritive and reproductive zooids, and often other kinds.