Definition of Cnidarians

1. Noun. (plural of cnidarian) ¹

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Definition of Cnidarians

1. cnidarian [n] - See also: cnidarian

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cnidarians

cmd
cmdlet
cmdlets
cme-carbodiimide
cmene
cmon
cnaemial
cnawvshawl
cnemial
cnemis
cnida
cnidae
cnidaria
cnidarian
cnidarian venoms
cnidarians (current term)
cnidariologist
cnidoblast
cnidoblasts
cnidocil
cnidocils
cnidocyst
cnidocysts
cnidocyte
cnidocytes
cnidosis
cnoidal
cnx
co's
co-

Literary usage of Cnidarians

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Manual of the Common Invertebrate Animals: Exclusive of Insects by Henry Sherring Pratt (1916)
"Louis and Alexander Agassiz and their pupils and followers have done the most to extend the knowledge of American cnidarians. Mayer's monograph, The Medusae ..."

2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"... trough the mesoderm so that in these animals varies and testes cannot be said to exist. In ic lowest cnidarians (Hydrozoa) the sex cells ..."

3. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1894)
"... and usually takes a deep stain similar to the nucleolus within the germinal vesicle. It has been seen in the eggs of cnidarians (Hacker and others), ..."

4. Reviews in Environmental Health (1998): Toxicological Defense Mechanics edited by Gary E. R. Hook, George W. Lucier (2000)
"cnidarians [coral (12)], crustaceans [water fleas and lobster (13,14)], mollusks [snails (15)], and echinoderms [starfish (16)] produce ..."

5. Electro-physiology by Wilhelm Biedermann (1896)
"... of the fibrils of the longitudinal muscular layer of worms, and the involuted muscle - lamella of certain cnidarians, is very striking. ..."

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