Definition of Hydranths

1. Noun. (plural of hydranth) ¹

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Definition of Hydranths

1. hydranth [n] - See also: hydranth

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hydranths

hydram
hydramide
hydramides
hydramine
hydramines
hydramitrazine tartrate
hydramnion
hydramnios
hydrams
hydranencephaly
hydrangea
hydrangea family
hydrangeas
hydrant
hydranth
hydranths (current term)
hydrants
hydrargochloride
hydrargochlorides
hydrargyria
hydrargyrism
hydrargyrum
hydrarthrodial
hydrarthron
hydrarthrosis
hydrarthrus
hydras
hydrase
hydrases
hydrastine

Literary usage of Hydranths

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

1. Regeneration by Thomas Hunt Morgan (1901)
"If, on the other hand, the colony is kept in the dark, new hydranths do not appear ; but if it is brought back again into the light the ..."

2. Botanical Gazette by University of Chicago, JSTOR (Organization) (1918)
"Since the short piece produces hydranths and these hydranths occupy its whole length, it must have contained enough of the formative substances to produce ..."

3. The Zoological Record ...: Being Records of Zoological Literature by Zoological Record Association (London, England), Zoological Society of London (1874)
"hydranths with a proximal and distal circlet of filiform tentacles, ... hydranths with two kinds of simple tentacles, one filiform, the other capitate ..."

4. Morphology of Invertebrate Types by Alexander Ivanovitch Petrunkevitch (1916)
"Branches are always opposite, arising at the base of the hydranths. Every internode giving rise to branches has therefore two ..."

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