coelenterate in English

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an aquatic invertebrate animal of a phylum that includes jellyfishes, corals, and sea anemones. They are distinguished by having a tube- or cup-shaped body and a single opening ringed with tentacles.
Over 200 species of micro-organisms, fish, crustaceans, polychaetes, echinoderms, coelenterates , and molluscs have been identified in the vent areas.
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1. 1 synonym for Cnidarian: coelenterate

2. 21 The flat, free-swimming, ciliated larva of a coelenterate.

3. Coelenterate Biology: Reviews and New Perspectives highlights research areas in which Coelenterates are exceptionally useful and interesting experimental animals

4. Cnidaria a subphylum of the phylum Coelenterata in some classifications, where the Ctenophora (sea gooseberries) form the other subphylum (see COELENTERATE).

5. Coelenterate At present, we have no information on the nature of the effector cells involved in graft rejection in sponges and Coelenterates

6. Cnidarian, also called coelenterate, any member of the phylum Cnidaria (Coelenterata), a group made up of more than 9,000 living species

7. Anthozoan definition, any marine coelenterate of the class Anthozoa, comprising colonial and solitary polyps and including corals, sea anemones, sea pens, etc

8. Definition of coelenterate : cnidarian Like corals and jellyfish, sea anemones are Coelenterates, a name that sacrifices poetry for scientific precision; it means that they have a hollow gut.

9. Noun any invertebrate animal, as a hydra, jellyfish, sea anemone, or coral, considered as belonging to the phylum Cnidaria, characterized by the specialized stinging structures in the tentacles surrounding the mouth; a coelenterate.

10. Cnidaria - hydras; polyps; jellyfishes; sea anemones; corals Coelenterata, phylum Cnidaria, phylum Coelenterata Metazoa, subkingdom Metazoa - multicellular animals having cells differentiated into tissues and organs and usually a digestive cavity and nervous system Cnidarian, coelenterate - radially symmetrical animals having saclike

11. Coelenterate: 1 n radially symmetrical animals having saclike bodies with only one opening and tentacles with stinging structures; they occur in polyp and medusa forms Synonyms: cnidarian Types: show 15 types hide 15 types polyp one of two forms that Coelenterates take (e.g

12. Cnidarian, also called coelenterate, any member of the phylum Cnidaria (Coelenterata), a group made up of more than 9,000 living species. Mostly marine animals, the Cnidarians include the corals, hydras, jellyfish, Portuguese men-of-war, sea anemones, sea pens, sea whips, and sea fans.

13. Hypernyms ("Anthozoan" is a kind of): cnidarian; coelenterate (radially symmetrical animals having saclike bodies with only one opening and tentacles with stinging structures; they occur in polyp and medusa forms) Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Anthozoan"):