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Answer for the clue "Colonial coelenterates having the polyp phase dominant ", 7 letters:
hydroid

Word definitions for hydroid in dictionaries

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hydroid \Hy"droid\, a. [Hydra + -oid.] (Zo["o]l.) Related to, or resembling, the hydra; of or pertaining to the Hydroidea. -- n. One of the Hydroideas.

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Hydroid may refer to: Hydroid (zoology) Hydroid (botany)

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. colonial coelenterates having the polyp phase dominant [syn: hydrozoan ]

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. Of or pertaining to such creatures n. Any of many colonial coelenterates that exist mainly as a polyp; a hydrozoan

Usage examples of hydroid.

It was a hydroid, a development of that strange animal-vegetable that, sometimes almost microscopic, waves in the sea depths like a cluster of flowers paralyzing its prey with the mysterious force that dwells in its blossom heads!

Haast supposes, be a ground feeder, existing on the smaller hydroid zoophytes, otherwise it must, I think, turn on its side in seizing its prey.

Haast supposes, be a ground feeder, existing on the smaller hydroid zoophytes, otherwise it must, I think, turn on its side in seizing its prey.