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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The chitinous receptacle within which the gonophores of certain hydrozoans are produced: same as
gonangium .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) A capsule developed on certain hydroids (
Thecaphora ), inclosing the blastostyle upon which the medusoid buds or gonophores are developed; -- called alsogonangium , andteleophore . Seehydroidea , andIllust. ofcampanularian .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun biology the protective covering of a
gonangium
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