Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Campanulate or bell-shaped with open mouth: specifically said of the genital buds, or gonophores. of hydrozoans, in distinction from
adelocodonic .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Zoöl.) Having an umbrella-shaped or bell-shaped body, with a wide, open cavity beneath; -- said of certain jellyfishes.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective zoology Having an
umbrella -shaped orbell -shaped body, with a wide, opencavity beneath; said of certainjellyfishes .
Etymologies
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Ancient Greek evident + a bell.
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