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Definition of Medusoids
1. medusoid [n] - See also: medusoid
Lexicographical Neighbors of Medusoids
Literary usage of Medusoids
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Report of the Annual Meeting (1863)
"On the Production of similar medusoids ly certain Hydroid Polypes belonging to
different Genera. Bt/ the Rev. ..."
2. Half hours at the sea-side; or, Recreations with marine objects by John Ellor Taylor (1872)
"The medusoids are each furnished with a pedicel, which is in reality the mouth
and stomach, and these hang down from the centre, as seen in Fig. 56. ..."
3. The Germ-cell Cycle in Animals by Robert William Hegner (1914)
""In the hydroid polyps and their medusoids the germ-cells always arise in the
ectoderm; in species which produce sexual medusoids by budding, the germ cells ..."
4. The Study of Animal Life by John Arthur Thomson (1892)
"A fixed plant-like, asexual hydroid colony buds off free-swimming, sexual medusoids,
from the fertilised eggs of which embryos develop which grow into ..."
5. Proceedings of the Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh by Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh (1863)
"It is impossible to construct any classification of the Hy- droid Zoophytes on
the form or position of their generative sacs or medusoids, as these vary not ..."
6. 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 (1854)
"The medusoids of ... however, possess free medusoids, the names of these genera
having been originally given to what were looked upon as independent forms ..."
7. A Manual of the Common Invertebrate Animals: Exclusive of Insects by Henry Sherring Pratt (1916)
"Key to the species of Tubularia here described: a, Polyps unbranched, in groups
of 4 to 8; medusoids with distinct radial canals T. ..."
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