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Hydroid

Related to, or resembling, the hydra; of or pertaining to the Hydroidea.

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Coelenterate 76% connected

Belonging to the Coelentera.

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Hydra 76% connected

A serpent or monster in the lake or marsh of Lerna, in the Peloponnesus, represented as having many heads, one of which, when cut off, was immediatel…

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Planula 76% connected

In embryonic development, a vesicle filled with fluid, formed from the morula by the divergence of its cells in such a manner as to give rise to a ce…

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Sertularian 76% connected

Any species of Sertularia, or of Sertularidae, a family of hydroids having branched chitinous stems and simple sessile hydrothecae. Also used adjecti…

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Siphonophore 76% connected

One of the Siphonophora.

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