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staurozoan

staurozoan noun: any member of the class Staurozoa; a stalked jellyfish.

Noun

staurozoan (plural staurozoans)

  1. Any member of the class Staurozoa; a stalked jellyfish.
    • The only staurozoan included in our analysis, Haliclystus sanjuanensis (6.5% gene sampling), is the most poorly sampled taxon in our data set (Fig 4 ).2015 October 15, “Phylogenomic Analyses Support Traditional Relationships within Cnidaria”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Forms of staurozoan

pluralstaurozoans

Origin of staurozoan

From Staurozoa + -an.

Questions about staurozoan

What does staurozoan mean?
Staurozoan means any member of the class Staurozoa; a stalked jellyfish.
What part of speech is staurozoan?
Staurozoan is a noun.
What is the plural of staurozoan?
The plural of staurozoan is staurozoans.

Words near staurozoan in the dictionary

  1. staurosporous
  2. staurotheke
  3. staurothekes
  4. staurotide
  5. staurotides
  6. staurozoan
  7. staurozoans
  8. staus
  9. Stauth
  10. Stavanger
  11. stavaroside

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