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Medusoid

Like a medusa; having the fundamental structure of a medusa, but without a locomotive disk; -- said of the sessile gonophores of hydroids.

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Coelenterate 76% connected

Belonging to the Coelentera.

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Medusa 66% connected

The Gorgon; or one of the Gorgons whose hair was changed into serpents, after which all who looked upon her were turned into stone.

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Medusa 92% connected

The Gorgon; or one of the Gorgons whose hair was changed into serpents, after which all who looked upon her were turned into stone.

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Actinozoan noun · 86% connection

sessile marine coelenterates including solitary and colonial polyps; the medusoid phase is entirely suppressed

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Anapsid noun · 86% connection

primitive reptile having no opening in the temporal region of the skull; all extinct except turtles

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Anapsid reptile noun · 86% connection

primitive reptile having no opening in the temporal region of the skull; all extinct except turtles

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Arachnid noun · 86% connection

air-breathing arthropods characterized by simple eyes and four pairs of legs

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Arachnoid noun · 86% connection

air-breathing arthropods characterized by simple eyes and four pairs of legs

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Arthropod noun · 86% connection

invertebrate having jointed limbs and a segmented body with an exoskeleton made of chitin

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Asian horseshoe crab noun · 86% connection

horseshoe crab of the coast of eastern Asia

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Centipede noun · 86% connection

chiefly nocturnal predacious arthropod having a flattened body of 15 to 173 segments each with a pair of legs, the foremost pair being…

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Class Merostomata noun · 86% connection

used in some classifications; includes the orders Xiphosura and Eurypterida

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Cnidarian noun · 86% connection

radially symmetrical animals having saclike bodies with only one opening and tentacles with stinging structures; they occur in polyp a…

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Diapsid noun · 86% connection

reptile having a pair of openings in the skull behind each eye

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Diapsid reptile noun · 86% connection

reptile having a pair of openings in the skull behind each eye

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Diapsida noun · 86% connection

used in former classifications to include all living reptiles except turtles; superseded by the two subclasses Lepidosauria and Archos…

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Eurypterid noun · 86% connection

large extinct scorpion-like arthropod considered related to horseshoe crabs

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Eutherian noun · 86% connection

mammals having a placenta; all mammals except monotremes and marsupials

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Eutherian mammal noun · 86% connection

mammals having a placenta; all mammals except monotremes and marsupials

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False scorpion noun · 86% connection

small nonvenomous arachnid resembling a tailless scorpion

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Female mammal noun · 86% connection

animals that nourish their young with milk

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Androphore noun · 78% connection

The part which in some Siphonophora bears the male gonophores.

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Archetype noun · 78% connection

The plan or fundamental structure on which a natural group of animals or plants or their systems of organs are assumed to have been co…

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Capacity noun · 78% connection

(computer science) the amount of information (in bytes) that can be stored on a disk drive; "the capacity of a hard disk drive is usua…

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Constitution noun · 78% connection

The fundamental, organic law or principles of government of men, embodied in written documents, or implied in the institutions and usa…

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Discoid adjective · 78% connection

Having the form of a disk, as those univalve shells which have the whorls in one plane, so as to form a disk, as the pearly nautilus.

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Discus noun · 78% connection

A disk. See Disk.

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Disk noun · 78% connection

A circular structure either in plants or animals; as, a blood disk; germinal disk, etc.

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Disk cache noun · 78% connection

a cache that stores copies of frequently used disk sectors in random access memory (RAM) so they can be read without accessing the slo…

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Diskless adjective · 78% connection

Having no disk; appearing as a point and not expanded into a disk, as the image of a faint star in a telescope.

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Foot noun · 78% connection

The muscular locomotive organ of a mollusk. It is a median organ arising from the ventral region of body, often in the form of a flat…

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Formatted capacity noun · 78% connection

(computer science) the usable capacity of a disk drive; the amount of space that is left after the sector headings and boundary defini…

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Frame noun · 78% connection

The skeleton structure which supports the boiler and machinery of a locomotive upon its wheels.

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