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Definition of Scyphistomas
1. scyphistoma [n] - See also: scyphistoma
Lexicographical Neighbors of Scyphistomas
Literary usage of Scyphistomas
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Outlines of zoology by John Arthur Thomson (1895)
"... and its allies are interesting sessile forms which have been compared to sexual
scyphistomas—that is, are regarded as persistently larval forms. ..."
2. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia by Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (1903)
"The buds usually develop, after detachment from the parent polyp, into a second
generation of scyphistomas, identical in form and fate with the original ..."
3. A Manual of the Common Invertebrate Animals: Exclusive of Insects by Henry Sherring Pratt (1916)
"New scyphistomas may be produced by a process of lateral budding from stolons
sent off from the foot. ..."
4. Text-book of the Embryology of Invertebrates by Eugen Korschelt, Karl Heider, Edward Laurens Mark, William McMichael Woodworth, Matilda Bernard, Martin Fountain Woodward (1895)
"... as may occasionally be observed in the scyphistomas, and acquired under
favourable circumstances the power to live on in this condition, then with this ..."
5. Outlines of Zoology by John Arthur Thomson, Marion Isabel Newbigin (1906)
"... its allies are interesting sessile forms which have been compared to sexual
scyphistomas, that is, are regarded as persistently larval forms. FlG. -jo. ..."
6. A Student's Text-book of Zoology by Adam Sedgwick, Joseph Jackson Lister, Arthur Everett Shipley (1898)
"... may be looked upon as scyphistomas deprived of their tentacles, which indeed
are only transitory structures, and elongated so as to assume the form of a ..."
7. Circulars by Johns Hopkins University, Stanford University (1900)
"Search for scyphistomas in the region where the jelly-fish were found was fruitless.
The youngest specimens taken in the tow were of practically the adult ..."
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