| NOUN | animal | actinozoan, anthozoan | sessile marine coelenterates including solitary and colonial polyps |
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| Meaning | sessile marine coelenterates including solitary and colonial polyps; the medusoid phase is entirely suppressed. | |
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| Synonym | anthozoan | |
| Member of | Anthozoa, class Anthozoa, Actinozoa, class Actinozoa | A large class of sedentary marine coelenterates that includes sea anemones and corals |
| Narrower | coral | marine colonial polyp characterized by a calcareous skeleton |
| 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 |
| Spanish | antozoo | |
| Catalan | antozou | |
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