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Polyactinia :: Polyactinia (n. pl.) An old name for those Anthozoa which, like the actinias, have numerous simple tentacles..

Coral :: Coral (n.) The hard parts or skeleton of various Anthozoa, and of a few Hydrozoa. Similar structures are also formed by some Bryozoa..

Sea Flewer :: Sea flewer () A sea anemone, or any related anthozoan..

Coelenterata :: Coelenterata (n. pl.) A comprehensive group of Invertebrata, mostly marine, comprising the Anthozoa, Hydrozoa, and Ctenophora. The name implies that the stomach and body cavities are one. The group is sometimes enlarged so as to include the sponges..

Hexactinia :: Hexactinia (n. pl.) The Anthozoa.

Actinaria :: Actinaria (n. pl.) A large division of Anthozoa, including those which have simple tentacles and do not form stony corals. Sometimes, in a wider sense, applied to all the Anthozoa, expert the Alcyonaria, whether forming corals or not..

Person :: Person (n.) A shoot or bud of a plant; a polyp or zooid of the compound Hydrozoa Anthozoa, etc.; also, an individual, in the narrowest sense, among the higher animals..

Loculus :: Loculus (n.) One of the spaces between the septa in the Anthozoa.

Zoanthodeme :: Zoanthodeme (n.) The zooids of a compound anthozoan, collectively..

Polypifera :: Polypifera (n. pl.) The Anthozoa.

Millepore :: Millepore (n.) Any coral of the genus Millepora, having the surface nearly smooth, and perforated with very minute unequal pores, or cells. The animals are hydroids, not Anthozoa. See Hydrocorallia..

Gonidium :: Gonidium (n.) A special groove or furrow at one or both angles of the mouth of many Anthozoa.

Sea Amenone :: Sea amenone () Any one of numerous species of soft-bodied Anthozoa, belonging to the order Actrinaria; an actinian..

Stoloniferous :: Stolon (n.) An extension of the integument of the body, or of the body wall, from which buds are developed, giving rise to new zooids, and thus forming a compound animal in which the zooids usually remain united by the stolons. Such stolons are often present in Anthozoa, Hydroidea, Bryozoa, and social ascidians. See Illust. under Scyphistoma..

Mesentery :: Mesentery (n.) One of the vertical muscular radiating partitions which divide the body cavity of Anthozoa into chambers.

Coenenchyma :: Coenenchyma (n.) The common tissue which unites the polyps or zooids of a compound anthozoan or coral. It may be soft or more or less ossified. See Coral.

Polypi :: Polypi (n. pl.) The Anthozoa.

Zooid :: Zooid (n.) One of the individual animals in a composite group, as of Anthozoa, Hydroidea, and Bryozoa; -- sometimes restricted to those individuals in which the mouth and digestive organs are not developed..

Polyp :: Polyp (n.) Same as Anthozoa. See Anthozoa, Madreporaria, Hydroid..

Polyp :: Polyp (n.) One of the Anthozoa.

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