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Definition of Polyzoans
1. polyzoan [n] - See also: polyzoan
Lexicographical Neighbors of Polyzoans
Literary usage of Polyzoans
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Natural History of Animals: Containing Brief Descriptions of the Animals by Sanborn Tenney (1875)
"polyzoans. These are very small or minute mollusks, growing in clusters upon
shells, rocks, and other objects, both in the sea and in fresh waters, ..."
2. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1890)
"(a) At first embracing the classes of brachiopods, polyzoans or bryozoans.
and tunicates or ascidians. (ii) Restricted to the tunicates and ..."
3. Evolution in the Past by Henry Robert Knipe (1912)
"They certainly had a longer future before them than Graptolites, for there is no
doubt that the polyzoans of to-day are their descendants, whilst Graptolite ..."
4. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1894)
"New polyzoans from the Belgian Cretaceous.—Mr. Ed. Bergens is about to publish
a descriptive work with plates of the Cretaceous ..."
5. Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India by Geological Survey of India (1883)
"In these rocks there are great numbers of the brachiopods and polyzoans characteristic
of the Kuling series of the Kashmir valley, together with crystals of ..."
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