SERTULARIAN

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Feathery colony of long-branched stems bearing stalkless paired polyps

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

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

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

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

genus Sertularia; Sertularia (sessile hydroid that forms feathery colonies)

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