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Definition of Class anthozoa

1. Noun. A large class of sedentary marine coelenterates that includes sea anemones and corals; the medusoid phase is entirely suppressed.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Class Anthozoa

Literary usage of Class anthozoa

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

1. A Text-book of Invertebrate Morphology by James Playfair McMurrich (1896)
"class anthozoa. The Anthozoa never assume the medusa form, but are sessile, usually colony-producing polyps of the ..."

2. An Introduction to the Study of Fossils (plants and Animals) by Hervey Woodburn Shimer (1914)
"GENERAL SURVEY OF class anthozoa f Usually sessile polyps differing from Hydrozoa in the posses- e'sion of a short oesophagus, differentiated from the ..."

3. Principles of Animal Biology by Aaron Franklin Shull, George Roger Larue, Alexander Grant Ruthven (1920)
"... not hydroid form; velum lacking; notches at margin of umbrella. Larger jellyfishes. Class ANTHOZOA. ..."

4. The Natural History Review: A Quarterly Journal of Biological Science by Armagh Natural History and Philosophical Society, Belfast Natural History and Philosophical Society, Cork Scientific and Literary Society, Cuvierian Society of Cork, Dublin University Zoological and Botanical Association, Literary and Scientific Instit (1861)
"Thus diminished in estent, the class Anthozoa has since been l»v J- V. Cam and Kölliker ;3* to the clans Polypi in the systems of adopted by more than one ..."

5. A Text-book of Geology: For Use in Universities, Colleges, Schools of by Louis Valentine Pirsson, Charles Schuchert (1915)
"class anthozoa or coral animals. Sea anemones. Individual coral animals without skeletons. Stony corals. Corals with skeletons of carbonate of lime. ..."

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