Meaning | sessile marine coelenterates including solitary and colonial polyps; the medusoid phase is entirely suppressed. |
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Synonym | anthozoan |
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Member of | Anthozoa, class Anthozoa, Actinozoa, class Actinozoa | A large class of sedentary marine coelenterates that includes sea anemones and corals |
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Narrower | coral | marine colonial polyp characterized by a calcareous skeleton |
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sea anemone, anemone | marine polyps that resemble flowers but have oral rings of tentacles |
sea pen | fleshy featherlike warm-water colonies |
Broader | coelenterate, cnidarian | radially symmetrical animals having saclike bodies with only one opening and tentacles with stinging structures |
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Spanish | antozoo |
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Catalan | antozou |
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