Definition of Anthozoans

1. Noun. (plural of anthozoan) ¹

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Definition of Anthozoans

1. anthozoan [n] - See also: anthozoan

Lexicographical Neighbors of Anthozoans

anthophilia
anthophilous
anthophobia
anthophore
anthophores
anthophyllite
anthophyllites
anthophyte
anthophytes
anthorism
anthotaxies
anthotaxy
anthoxanthins
anthozoa
anthozoan
anthozoans (current term)
anthozoic
anthra-
anthracaemia
anthracene
anthracenes
anthracenyl
anthraces
anthracic
anthraciferous
anthracin
anthracite
anthracite coal
anthracites
anthracitic

Literary usage of Anthozoans

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

1. Revised Text-book of Geology by James Dwight Dana, William North Rice (1897)
"anthozoans are distinguished from Hydrozoans by having an involution of the body wall at the ... Most of the anthozoans form communities, branching (Fig. ..."

2. An Introduction to Historical Geology: With Special Reference to North America by William John Miller (1916)
"Hydrozoans are little creatures consisting of tube-like sacs with mouth at one end surrounded by tentacles. anthozoans are very much the ..."

3. A Course in Invertebrate Zoölogy: A Guide to the Dissection and Comparative by Henry Sherring Pratt (1915)
"anthozoans with eight mesenterial ridges and eight pinnate tentacles. ... anthozoans with numerous mesenterial ridges and numerous simple tentacles. ..."

4. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1877)
"... are Hydroids, and not anthozoans." By HN MOSELEY, Naturalist onboard HMS'Challenger.' Communicated by Professor WYVILLE THOMSON, FRS, Director of the ..."

5. Biological Lectures, Delivered at the Marine Biological Laboratory of Wood's (1894)
"... somewhat dark and cellar-like ; its tanks small and shallow, their inmates representing especially stages of Adriatic hydroids and anthozoans. ..."

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