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COELENTERATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does coelenterate mean? 

COELENTERATE (noun)
  The noun COELENTERATE has 1 sense:

1. radially symmetrical animals having saclike bodies with only one opening and tentacles with stinging structures; they occur in polyp and medusa formsplay

  Familiarity information: COELENTERATE used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


COELENTERATE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Radially symmetrical animals having saclike bodies with only one opening and tentacles with stinging structures; they occur in polyp and medusa forms

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

cnidarian; coelenterate

Hypernyms ("coelenterate" is a kind of...):

invertebrate (any animal lacking a backbone or notochord; the term is not used as a scientific classification)

Meronyms (parts of "coelenterate"):

coelenteron (the saclike body cavity of a coelenterate)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "coelenterate"):

polyp (one of two forms that coelenterates take (e.g. a hydra or coral): usually sedentary with a hollow cylindrical body usually with a ring of tentacles around the mouth)

medusa; medusan; medusoid (one of two forms that coelenterates take: it is the free-swimming sexual phase in the life cycle of a coelenterate; in this phase it has a gelatinous umbrella-shaped body and tentacles)

jellyfish (any of numerous usually marine and free-swimming coelenterates that constitute the sexually reproductive forms of hydrozoans and scyphozoans)

scyphozoan (any of various usually free-swimming marine coelenterates having a gelatinous medusoid stage as the dominant phase of its life cycle)

hydroid; hydrozoan (colonial coelenterates having the polyp phase dominant)

actinozoan; anthozoan (sessile marine coelenterates including solitary and colonial polyps; the medusoid phase is entirely suppressed)

Holonyms ("coelenterate" is a member of...):

Cnidaria; Coelenterata; phylum Cnidaria; phylum Coelenterata (hydras; polyps; jellyfishes; sea anemones; corals)


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