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Hydranth

Hy′dranth

,
Noun.
[
Hydra
+ Gr. [GREEK] a flower.]
(Zool.)
One of the nutritive zooids of a hydroid colony. Also applied to the proboscis or manubrium of a hydroid medusa. See Illust. of
Hydroidea
.

Definition 2024


hydranth

hydranth

English

Noun

hydranth (plural hydranths)

  1. (zoology) An individual polyp of a hydroid colony
    • 1970, Sylvan Meryl Rose, Regeneration, page 126:
      NM Stevens (1902) and Emil Godlewski (1904) described the transformation of pieces of stem to hydranths in the marine hydroid.

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