NOUN | animal | Hydrozoa, class Hydrozoa | coelenterates typically having alternation of generations |
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Meaning | coelenterates typically having alternation of generations; hydroid phase is usually colonial giving rise to the medusoid phase by budding: hydras and jellyfishes. | |
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Synonym | class Hydrozoa | |
Member of | Cnidaria, phylum Cnidaria, Coelenterata, phylum Coelenterata | hydras |
Members | Sertularia, genus Sertularia | sessile hydroid that forms feathery colonies |
Siphonophora, order Siphonophora | marine colonial hydrozoans | |
genus Hydra | hydras | |
hydrozoan, hydroid | colonial coelenterates having the polyp phase dominant | |
Broader | class | (biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more orders |
Spanish | hidrozoos | |
Catalan | Hydrozoa |
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