Word Meanings - HYDROZOA - Book Publishers vocabulary database
The Acalephæ; one of the classes of coelenterates, including the Hydroidea, Discophora, and Siphonophora.
Related words: (words related to HYDROZOA)
- ACALEPHOID
Belonging to or resembling the Acalephæ or jellyfishes. - ACALEPH; ACALEPHAN
One of the Acalephæ. - INCLUDED
Inclosed; confined. Included stamens , such as are shorter than the floral envelopes, or are concealed within them. - SIPHONOPHORA
An order of pelagic Hydrozoa including species which form complex free-swimming communities composed of numerous zooids of various kinds, some of which act as floats or as swimming organs, others as feeding or nutritive zooids, and others - SIPHONOPHORAN
Belonging to the Siphonophora. -- n. - HYDROIDEA
Note: This order includes the hydras and the free-swimming hydromedusæ, together with a great variety of marine attached hydroids, many of which grow up into large, elegantly branched forms, consisting of a vast number of zooids , united - DISCOPHORA
A division of acalephs or jellyfishes, including most of the large disklike species. -- Dis*coph"o*rous, a. - INCLUDE
1. To confine within; to hold; to contain; to shut up; to inclose; as, the shell of a nut includes the kernel; a pearl is included in a shell. 2. To comprehend or comprise, as a genus the species, the whole a part, an argument or reason - ACALEPHAE
A group of Coelenterata, including the Medusæ or jellyfishes, and hydroids; -- so called from the stinging power they possess. Sometimes called sea nettles. - INCLUDIBLE
Capable of being included.