Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In zoology, a term applied by Allman to the common living basis by which the several beings included in a composite zoöphyte are connected with one another.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) The common soft tissue which unites the polyps of a compound hydroid. See
hydroidea .
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The Coral tissue that stretches atop the ground of coral in between polyps is the coenosarc.
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