Definition of Coelenterate

1. Noun. Radially symmetrical animals having saclike bodies with only one opening and tentacles with stinging structures; they occur in polyp and medusa forms.

Exact synonyms: Cnidarian
Terms within: Coelenteron
Generic synonyms: Invertebrate
Group relationships: Cnidaria, Coelenterata, Phylum Cnidaria, Phylum Coelenterata
Specialized synonyms: Polyp, Medusa, Medusan, Medusoid, Jellyfish, Scyphozoan, Hydroid, Hydrozoan, Actinozoan, Anthozoan

Definition of Coelenterate

1. Noun. Any simple aquatic animal bearing tentacles with nematocysts. Examples include jellyfish, coral, and anemones. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Coelenterate

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Medical Definition of Coelenterate

1. Common name for members of the Coelenterata. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Coelenterate

coefficient of kinship
coefficient of mutual induction
coefficient of reflection
coefficient of relationship
coefficient of self induction
coefficient of variation
coefficient of viscosity
coefficiently
coefficients
coehorn
coehorns
coelacanth
coelacanthine
coelacanths
coelentera
coelenterate (current term)
coelenterate family
coelenterate genus
coelenterates
coelenterazine
coelenteron
coeliac
coeliac-flux
coeliac (lymphatic) plexus
coeliac (nervous) plexus
coeliac artery
coeliac axis
coeliac branches of vagus nerve
coeliac disease
coeliac ganglia

Literary usage of Coelenterate

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

1. A Treatise on Zoology by Edwin Ray Lankester (1900)
"The sponges would then be a modification of the coelenterate ancestor in one direction, the Cnidaria in another. In considering these views we may take the ..."

2. Forms of Animal Life: A Manual of Comparative Anatomy : with Descriptions of by George Rolleston, William Hatchett Jackson (1888)
"It is not likely that Coelomate forms are derived from coelenterate. ... The great complexity often acquired by the coelenterate ecto- and endo-derm points ..."

3. Studies from the Morphological Laboratory in the University of Cambridge by University of Cambridge Morphological laboratory, Adam Sedgwick, Francis Maitland Balfour (1886)
"If this hypothesis is correct, ie if it be true that the oral surface of a coelenterate is homologous with the ventral surface of the mentioned groups; ..."

4. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1904)
"... swallow coelenterate nemato- cysts undischarged, pass them in this condition through its alimentary canal, and then discharge them in its own defence, ..."

5. The Cambridge Natural History by Arthur Everett Shipley, Sidney Frederic Harmer (1906)
"... to the individual coelenterate animal or zooid, was originally introduced on a fancied resemblance of a Hydra to a small Cuttle-fish (Fr. Poulpe, Lat. ..."

6. Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society by Cambridge Philosophical Society (1886)
"... not to a triploblastic unsegmented ancestor but to a two-layered coelenterate-like animal with a pouched gut, the pouching having arisen as a result of ..."

7. Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science edited by Biologists Limited, The Company of. (1874)
"... to a mere non-essential resemblance the parallelism which appears in other respects so well established between vertebrate and coelenterate development. ..."

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