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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.
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
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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