Scyphistoma

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A larva of a scyphozoan, consisting of an elongated and deeply constricted polyp that successively splits off minute, free-swimming medusas.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. The young attached larva of Discophora in the stage when it resembles a hydroid, or actinian.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The young attached larva of Discophora in the stage when it resembles a hydroid, or actinian.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A generic name applied by Sars to certain Polyps, under a misapprehension; hence, the actinula or fixed embryo of some hydrozoans, as a discophoran, which multiplies agamogenetically by budding, and gives rise to permanent colonies of hydriform polyps; an ephyra. See Scyphomedusæ, and cut under strobila. Also scyphistome, scyphostome.
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