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PARAZOAN (parazoa)

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does parazoan mean? 

PARAZOAN (noun)
  The noun PARAZOAN has 1 sense:

1. primitive multicellular marine animal whose porous body is supported by a fibrous skeletal framework; usually occurs in sessile coloniesplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


PARAZOAN (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Primitive multicellular marine animal whose porous body is supported by a fibrous skeletal framework; usually occurs in sessile colonies

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

parazoan; poriferan; sponge

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

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

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

glass sponge (a siliceous sponge (with glassy spicules) of the class Hyalospongiae)

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

phylum Porifera; Porifera (coextensive with the subkingdom Parazoa: sponges)


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