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Actinaria
n. pl. · 78% connection
A large division of Anthozoa, including those which have simple tentacles and do not form stony corals. Sometimes, in a wider sense, a…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: extensive, division, anthozoa, including, species.
Chaetopoda
n. pl. · 78% connection
A very extensive order of Annelida, characterized by the presence of lateral setae, or spines, on most or all of the segments. They ar…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: extensive, division, anthozoa, including, species.
Cyathophylloid
noun · 78% connection
A fossil coral of the family Cyathophyllidae; sometimes extended to fossil corals of other related families belonging to the group Rug…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: extensive, division, anthozoa, including, species.
Eschara
noun · 78% connection
A genus of Bryozoa which produce delicate corals, often incrusting like lichens, but sometimes branched.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: extensive, division, anthozoa, including, species.
Extensive
adjective · 78% connection
Having wide extent; of much superficial extent; expanded; large; broad; wide; comprehensive; as, an extensive farm; an extensive lake;…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: extensive, division, anthozoa, including, species.
Fission
noun · 78% connection
A method of asexual reproduction among the lowest (unicellular) organisms by means of a process of self-division, consisting of gradua…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: extensive, division, anthozoa, including, species.
Fungia
noun · 78% connection
A genus of simple, stony corals; -- so called because they are usually flat and circular, with radiating plates, like the gills of a m…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: extensive, division, anthozoa, including, species.
Fungian
adjective · 78% connection
Of or pertaining to the Fungidae, a family of stony corals.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: extensive, division, anthozoa, including, species.
Halysites
noun · 78% connection
A genus of Silurian fossil corals; the chain corals. See Chain coral, under Chain.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: extensive, division, anthozoa, including, species.
Holostei
n. pl. · 78% connection
An extensive division of ganoids, including the gar pike, bowfin, etc.; the bony ganoids. See Illustration in Appendix.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: extensive, division, anthozoa, including, species.
Hydrobranchiata
n. pl. · 78% connection
An extensive artificial division of gastropod mollusks, including those that breathe by gills, as contrasted with the Pulmonifera.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: extensive, division, anthozoa, including, species.
Hydrocorallia
n. pl. · 78% connection
A division of Hydroidea, including those genera that secrete a stony coral, as Millepora and Stylaster. Two forms of zooids in life pr…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: extensive, division, anthozoa, including, species.
Karyostenosis
noun · 78% connection
Direct cell division (in which there is first a simple division of the nucleus, without any changes in its structure, followed by divi…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: extensive, division, anthozoa, including, species.
Kingdom
noun · 78% connection
An extensive scientific division distinguished by leading or ruling characteristics; a principal division; a department; as, the miner…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: extensive, division, anthozoa, including, species.
Lithophyte
noun · 78% connection
A hard, or stony, plantlike organism, as the gorgonians, corals, and corallines, esp. those gorgonians having a calcareous axis. All t…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: extensive, division, anthozoa, including, species.
Meandrina
noun · 78% connection
A genus of corals with meandering grooves and ridges, including the brain corals.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: extensive, division, anthozoa, including, species.
Musa
noun · 78% connection
A genus of perennial, herbaceous, endogenous plants of great size, including the banana (Musa sapientum), the plantain (M. paradisiaca…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: extensive, division, anthozoa, including, species.
Oculinacea
n.pl. · 78% connection
A suborder of corals including many reef-building species, having round, starlike calicles.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: extensive, division, anthozoa, including, species.
