What is "coelenterate"

Usage examples of "coelenterate".

The aloofness displayed for each other by members of the marine coelenterate species of Gorgonaceae suggests that mechanisms for preserving individuality must have existed long before the evolution of immunity.

Before her drifted the end result of billions of years of coelenterate evolution, a collective organism of unimagined complexity.

The creature displayed qualities reminiscent of both coelenterate and echinoderm.

So saying, the otter slipped several quivering slabs of coelenterate between two pieces of breadfruit and commenced chewing noisily.

But the regs say that any world holding life bigger than a bacterium and more complex than a coelenterate requires at least one hands-on survey by a visiting ship.

The nerve network of the coelenterate does the same thing, acting as a supermembrane of a supercell.

Any stimulus anywhere on the coelenterate body alerts the entire organism indiscriminately and results in a response of the whole, which proceeds to contract, sway, or undulate.

The coelenterate system would correspond to a telephone network in which all subscribers are on a single party line, so that any call from one to another rouses every one of the subscribers, who are then free to listen and probably do.

The first sea-tanks must have sent coelenterate bubbles wobbling into the air before the men realized what was happening, for presently all was cries, screams and confusion.

Save for a few Xican coelenterates that had been stranded on the beach by high tide, the sands were as unblemished as the mind of an embryo, washed pure by an unpolluted sea.

Like so many other bits of knowledge, the fact of his age continually escaped him, washing in and out of consciousness like the unfortunate coelenterates on the beach.

Terran coelenterates had developed specialized stinging cells to gather prey and defend.

Animals simpler than the flatworms, such as the coelenterates, sponges, and single-celled creatures, generally have either radial symmetry or no marked symmetry at all.

Not more than three or four coelenterates were released in all, and only a dozen or so villagers caught by them.

Scarcely any place was willing to contemplate the prospect of a sea-tank trapped on its foreshore, but still capable of throwing out coelenterates for an unknown length of time, nor did even Bocker have any theories on the location of traps beyond the construction of enormous numbers of them on a hit-or-miss basis.