Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A marine invertebrate belonging to the now obsolete phylum Coelenterata, which included the cnidarians and sometimes also the ctenophores.
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- noun Any simple
aquatic animal bearingtentacles withnematocysts . Examples includejellyfish ,coral , andanemones .
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- noun radially symmetrical animals having saclike bodies with only one opening and tentacles with stinging structures; they occur in polyp and medusa forms
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Cnidaria and Ctenophora are now classified as separate phyla, and the term "coelenterate" sent off to the rubbish heap of obsolete biological terms.
New art frankwu 2007
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So saying, the otter slipped several quivering slabs of coelenterate between two pieces of breadfruit and commenced chewing noisily.
The Time of the Transference Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1987
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Before her drifted the end result of billions of years of coelenterate evolution, a collective organism of unimagined complexity.
Cachalot Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1980
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Any stimulus anywhere on the coelenterate body alerts the entire organism indiscriminately and results in a response of the whole, which proceeds to contract, sway, or undulate.
The Human Brain Asimov, Isaac 1963
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The coelenterate system would correspond to a telephone net - work in which all subscribers are on a single party line, so that any call from one to another rouses every one of the subscribers, who are then free to listen and probably do.
The Human Brain Asimov, Isaac 1963
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The nerve network of the coelenterate does the same thing, acting as a supermembrane of a supercell.
The Human Brain Asimov, Isaac 1963
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I know of coral only that is the hard calcareous skeleton of the marine coelenterate polyps; and that this red coral iss called of a sclerobasic group; and other facts of the kind; but I do not know if it iss supposed to resist impact and heat.
African Camp Fires Stewart Edward White 1909
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Along with the coelenterate corals, the algae are the major primary producers and builders of Panamanian Eastern Pacific reef systems.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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Along with the coelenterate corals, the algae are the major primary producers and builders of Panamanian Eastern Pacific reef systems.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories PhysOrg Team 2010
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Along with the coelenterate corals, the algae are the major primary producers and builders of Panamanian Eastern Pacific reef systems.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories PhysOrg Team 2010
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