Definition of Hydrozoon

1. Noun. (zoology) One of the Hydrozoa. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Hydrozoon

1. a type of sea organism [n HYDROZOA]

Medical Definition of Hydrozoon

1. Origin: NL. One of the Hydrozoa. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hydrozoon

hydroxytryptophan decarboxylase
hydroxytryptophol
hydroxyurea
hydroxyureas
hydroxyvitamin
hydroxyzine
hydroxyzine hydrochloride
hydroxyzines
hydrozincite
hydrozincites
hydrozirconation
hydrozoal
hydrozoan
hydrozoans
hydrozoon (current term)
hydrozoons
hydruret
hydrurets
hydrus
hydrœcia
hydrœcium
hydræ
hydræmia
hydyne
hydynes
hye
hyed
hyeing
hyem

Literary usage of Hydrozoon

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

1. College zoology by Robert William Hegner (1918)
"... variations of each of these, and frequently one species may exhibit both conditions at different periods in its life-history. a. A Colonial hydrozoon ..."

2. The New Sydenham Society's Lexicon of Medicine and the Allied Sciences ...by Henry Power, Leonard William Sedgwick, New Sydenham Society by Henry Power, Leonard William Sedgwick, New Sydenham Society (1888)
"The life cycle of u hydrozoon starts with an egg, which is at first composed of a single cell, which after fertilisation multiplies by transverse fission, ..."

3. A Manual of Zoology by Henry Alleyne Nicholson (1870)
"This is the term which is employed to designate the entire body of a hydrozoon, whether it be simple, as in the Hydra, or composite, ..."

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