phanerocodonic love

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 or bell-shaped body, with a wide, open cavity beneath; said of certain jellyfishes.

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

Ancient Greek evident + a bell.

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