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Hydroid phase is usually colonial giving rise to the medusoid phase by budding hydras and jellyfishes
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hydrozoa
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n. colonial coelenterates having the polyp phase dominant [syn: hydroid ] [also: hydrozoa (pl)]
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Hydrozoa \Hy`dro*zo"a\, n. pl. [NL., fr. E. hydra + Gr. zo^,on an animal.] (Zo["o]l.) The Acaleph[ae]; one of the classes of c[oe]lenterates, including the Hydroidea, Discophora, and Siphonophora.
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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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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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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.