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Definition of Order alcyonaria
1. Noun. Corals and sea anemones having eight branches.
Exact synonyms: Alcyonaria
Generic synonyms: Animal Order
Group relationships: Actinozoa, Anthozoa, Class Actinozoa, Class Anthozoa
Member holonyms: Alcyonacea, Suborder Alcyonacea, Family Pennatulidae, Pennatulidae, Gorgonacea, Gorgoniacea, Suborder Gorgonacea, Suborder Gorgoniacea
Generic synonyms: Animal Order
Group relationships: Actinozoa, Anthozoa, Class Actinozoa, Class Anthozoa
Member holonyms: Alcyonacea, Suborder Alcyonacea, Family Pennatulidae, Pennatulidae, Gorgonacea, Gorgoniacea, Suborder Gorgonacea, Suborder Gorgoniacea
Lexicographical Neighbors of Order Alcyonaria
Literary usage of Order alcyonaria
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Geologist by Newton Horace Winchell (1888)
"... though this has also been placed in the order Alcyonaria), some have gone to
... while others have been transferred to the order Alcyonaria ( eg ..."
2. A Text-book of Invertebrate Morphology by James Playfair McMurrich (1896)
"order alcyonaria.—Colonial forms with eight mesenteries not arranged in pairs ;
tentacles pinnate. (a) Without axial skeleton. ..."
3. Popular Zoology by Joel Dorman Steele, John Whipple Potter Jenks (1887)
"order alcyonaria (51 si O n&'rl 6). This order includes those Polyps which have
the me- ..."
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