Hydroid

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Any of numerous characteristically colonial hydrozoan coelenterates having a polyp rather than a medusoid form as the dominant stage of the life cycle.
  • n. The asexual polyp in the life cycle of a hydrozoan.
  • adj. Of, relating to, or characteristic of a hydroid.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. Any of many colonial coelenterates that exist mainly as a polyp; a hydrozoan
  • adj. Of or pertaining to such creatures
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Related to, or resembling, the hydra; of or pertaining to the Hydroidea.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Like water; living in the water.
  • Resembling the hydra, or an animal of the genus Hydra.
  • Pertaining to the Hydroida or Hydroidea, or having their characters: as, a hydroid hydrozoan.
  • n. One of the Hydroidea.
  • n. A hydropolyp.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. colonial coelenterates having the polyp phase dominant
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    coelenterate    cnidarian   
    Hyponym
    planula    siphonophore    hydra    sertularian   
     
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