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Definition of Actinozoa
1. Noun. A large class of sedentary marine coelenterates that includes sea anemones and corals; the medusoid phase is entirely suppressed.
Group relationships: Cnidaria, Coelenterata, Phylum Cnidaria, Phylum Coelenterata
Member holonyms: Actinozoan, Anthozoan, Actinaria, Actiniaria, Order Actinaria, Order Actiniaria, Alcyonaria, Order Alcyonaria, Madreporaria, Order Madreporaria
Generic synonyms: Class
Definition of Actinozoa
1. n. pl. A group of Cœlenterata, comprising the Anthozoa and Ctenophora. The sea anemone, or actinia, is a familiar example.
Definition of Actinozoa
1. Noun. (plural of actinozoon) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Actinozoa
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Actinozoa
Literary usage of Actinozoa
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journal of Morphology by Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology (1891)
"CONTRIBUTIONS ON THE MORPHOLOGY OF THE actinozoa. III. ... 159 A DISCUSSION of
the phylogeny of the actinozoa may seem superfluous after the admirable paper ..."
2. The Cambridge Natural History by Arthur Everett Shipley, Sidney Frederic Harmer (1906)
"ANTHOZOA = actinozoa GENERAL CHARACTERS ... actinozoa AMONG tlie familiar objects
included in this class are the Sea- ..."
3. The Microscope and Its Revelations by William Benjamin Carpenter (1883)
"actinozoa.—Of this group, the common ... many of which are beautiful objects for
the Microscope, are by most Zoologists ranked with the actinozoa. ..."
4. The Standard Natural History by John Sterling Kingsley, Elliott Coues (1884)
"The word actinozoa, of comparatively modern date, has an almost exact ... In the
general structure of their bodies the actinozoa differ somewhat from the ..."
5. Text-book of Zoology for Junior Students by Henry Alleyne Nicholson (1888)
"Further, in the actinozoa the reproductive organs are always internal, ...
In their minute structure the tissues in the actinozoa differ little from those ..."
6. A manual of the sub-kingdom cœlenterata by Joseph Reay Greene (1861)
"Many genera of fixed actinozoa, abundant in one hemisphere, ... actinozoa appear
to have been numerous during each of the greater artificial geologic epochs ..."
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