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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, marine, annelida, including.
Anemone
noun · 78% connection
marine polyps that resemble flowers but have oral rings of tentacles; differ from corals in forming no hard skeleton
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: extensive, division, marine, annelida, including.
Annulata
n. pl. · 78% connection
A class of articulate animals, nearly equivalent to Annelida, including the marine annelids, earthworms, Gephyrea, Gymnotoma, leeches,…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: extensive, division, marine, annelida, including.
Caducibranchiate
adjective · 78% connection
With temporary gills: -- applied to those Amphibia in which the gills do not remain in adult life.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: extensive, division, marine, annelida, including.
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, marine, annelida, including.
Chilostomata
n. pl. · 78% connection
An extensive suborder of marine Bryozoa, mostly with calcareous shells. They have a movable lip and a lid to close the aperture of the…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: extensive, division, marine, annelida, including.
Cirrus
noun · 78% connection
A soft tactile appendage of the mantle of many Mollusca, and of the parapodia of Annelida. Those near the head of annelids are Tentacu…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: extensive, division, marine, annelida, including.
Dakotas
n. pl · 78% connection
An extensive race or stock of Indians, including many tribes, mostly dwelling west of the Mississippi River; -- also, in part, called…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: extensive, division, marine, annelida, including.
dorsibranchiata
n. pl. · 78% connection
A division of chaetopod annelids in which the branchiae are along the back, on each side, or on the parapodia. [See Illusts. under Ann…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: extensive, division, marine, annelida, including.
Echiuroidea
n. pl. · 78% connection
A division of Annelida which includes the genus Echiurus and allies. They are often classed among the Gephyrea, and called the armed G…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: extensive, division, marine, annelida, including.
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, marine, annelida, including.
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, marine, annelida, including.
Gephyrea
n. pl. · 78% connection
An order of marine Annelida, in which the body is imperfectly, or not at all, annulated externally, and is mostly without setae.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: extensive, division, marine, annelida, including.
Hirudinea
n. pl. · 78% connection
An order of Annelida, including the leeches; -- called also Hirudinei.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: extensive, division, marine, annelida, including.
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, marine, annelida, including.
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, marine, annelida, including.
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, marine, annelida, including.
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, marine, annelida, including.
