Anthozoan

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  • noun. Any of numerous cnidarians of the class Anthozoa, including the corals and sea anemones, that grow singly or in colonies and live as polyps, without a medusa stage.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Pertaining to or having the characters of the Anthozoa; anthozoic.
  • noun. One of the Anthozoa; an anthozoön.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Pertaining to the Anthozoa.
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  • noun. A marine invertebrate of the class Anthozoa, such as a sea anemone or coral
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  • noun. sessile marine coelenterates including solitary and colonial polyps; the medusoid phase is entirely suppressed
    • Word Usage
    "In turn, anthozoan species seem to have lost their group A HOX9-14 gene (present in hydrozoans; inconclusive data for scyphozoans; figure 1)."
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