Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One of the members of a colony of Hydrozoa whose function is to capture food for the gastrozoöids. or nutritive members of the colony.
- noun In zoology, an occasional elongated appendage of hydrozoans, devoid of a mouth and gastric cavity, and having a simple tentacular function: so called from its shape.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) A kind of zooid of Siphonophora which has an elongated or even vermiform body, with one tentacle, but no mouth. See
siphonophora .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun zoology A kind of
zooid ofSiphonophora with an elongated or evenvermiform body, with onetentacle , but nomouth .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Portuguese Man-of-War Tentacles - The dreaded tentacles of the Portuguese man-of-war belong to the dactylozooid polyps it contains.
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Portuguese Man-of-War Tentacles - The dreaded tentacles of the Portuguese man-of-war belong to the dactylozooid polyps it contains.
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Portuguese Man-of-War Tentacles - The dreaded tentacles of the Portuguese man-of-war belong to the dactylozooid polyps it contains.
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Portuguese Man-of-War Tentacles - The dreaded tentacles of the Portuguese man-of-war belong to the dactylozooid polyps it contains.
unknown title 2009
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