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anthozoans

anthozoans is the plural of anthozoan.

Meaning of anthozoan

Noun

anthozoan (plural anthozoa or anthozoans)

  1. (marine biology) 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

Questions about anthozoans

What is anthozoans the plural of?
Anthozoans is the plural of anthozoan.

Words near anthozoans in the dictionary

  1. anthoxanthine
  2. anthoxanthines
  3. anthoxanthins
  4. anthozoa
  5. anthozoan
  6. anthozoans
  7. anthozoic
  8. anthozoon
  9. anthozymase
  10. anthra-
  11. anthrac-

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