anthozoa
anthozoa is the plural of anthozoan.
anthozoa is the plural of anthozoon.
Meaning of anthozoan
Noun
anthozoan (plural anthozoa or anthozoans)
- A marine invertebrate of the class Anthozoa, such as a sea anemone or coral.
- In his childhood, he said, he used to walk beside the chalk cliffs of Devon and Cornwall, […] admiring the endless diversity of the semi-sentient marvels oscillating between the vegetable, animal and mineral kingdoms, the zooids and corallines, sea anemones, sea fans and sea feathers, the...2001, WG Sebald, translated by Anthea Bell, Austerlitz, Penguin, published 2011, page 126
Meaning of anthozoon
Noun
anthozoon (plural anthozoa)
- A member of the class Anthozoa, comprising marine invertebrates including corals and sea anemones.
- Unlike stony corals and other anthozoa, whose polyps have sixfold symmetry, the polyps of a gorgonian have eightfold symmetry.2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, Granta Books, published 2013, page 134
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- What is anthozoa the plural of?
- Anthozoa is the plural of anthozoan.
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