English > coelenterate: 1 sense > noun 1, animal| Meaning | radially symmetrical animals having saclike bodies with only one opening and tentacles with stinging structures; they occur in polyp and medusa forms. |
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| Synonym | cnidarian |
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| Member of | Cnidaria, phylum Cnidaria, Coelenterata, phylum Coelenterata | hydras |
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| Parts | coelenteron | The saclike body cavity of a coelenterate |
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| Narrower | anthozoan, actinozoan | sessile marine coelenterates including solitary and colonial polyps |
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| hydrozoan, hydroid | colonial coelenterates having the polyp phase dominant |
| jellyfish | Any of numerous usually marine and free-swimming coelenterates that constitute the sexually reproductive forms of hydrozoans and scyphozoans |
| medusa, medusoid, medusan | One of two forms that coelenterates take |
| polyp | One of two forms that coelenterates take (e.g. a hydra or coral) |
| scyphozoan | Any of various usually free-swimming marine coelenterates having a gelatinous medusoid stage / stage as the dominant phase of its life cycle |
| Broader | invertebrate | Any animal lacking a backbone or notochord |
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| Spanish | celentéreo, celentéreos, cnidarian, cnidario |
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| Catalan | cnidari |
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