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Coelenterates typically having alternation of generations
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hydrozoa
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n. (context biology English) a large group of marine animals, of the class ''Hydrozoa'', whose life cycles contain a sexual and asexual stage
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Animal \An"i*mal\, a. [Cf. F. animal.] Of or relating to animals; as, animal functions. Pertaining to the merely sentient part of a creature, as distinguished from the intellectual, rational, or spiritual part; as, the animal passions or appetites. Consisting ...
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Hydrozoa ( hydrozoans , from ancient Greek ὕδρα, hydra , "sea serpent" and ζῷον, zoon , "animal") are a taxonomic class of individually very small, predatory animals, some solitary and some colonial, most living in salt water. The colonies of the colonial ...
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n. colonial coelenterates having the polyp phase dominant [syn: hydroid ] [also: hydrozoa (pl)]
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The Corviki resemble a marine animal in the class hydrozoa, sort of a large sac-like body with a complex collection of tendrils that may be nerve endings.
Headley, that the groundwork here, so far as we can observe it through the dense growth of hydrozoa and silicious sponges, is pumicestone and the black slag of basalt, pointing to ancient plutonic activities.