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hydroid.

/hahy-droid/US // ˈhaɪ drɔɪd //UK // (ˈhaɪdrɔɪd) //

水瘤,水生动物,绣球,水生植物

Related Words

tumor肿瘤,瘤子,肿块,瘤 hydra水蛇,水螅,水龙,水蛇阵 coral珊瑚,瑚,珊珊,玉米 coelenterate腔肠动物,软体动物,腹足类动物,腔肠动物类 anemone海葵,海葵花,水母,金莲花

Definitions

adj.adjective · 形容词

1.
- ›noting or pertaining to that form of hydrozoan that is asexual and grows into branching colonies by budding.

n.noun · 名词

1.
- ›the phase of a hydrozoan coelenterate that consists of polyp forms usually growing as an attached colony.

Synonyms & Antonyms

as inpolyp

Synonyms

tumor肿瘤,瘤子,肿块,瘤 anemone海葵,海葵花,水母,金莲花 coelenterate腔肠动物,软体动物,腹足类动物,腔肠动物类 coral珊瑚,瑚,珊珊,玉米 hydra水蛇,水螅,水龙,水蛇阵

Examples

The illustration shows a plant on which the hydroid Sertularia pumila is growing.
A hydroid about one inch high, growing in patches and appearing like tufts of moss on rocks between tide-marks.
There are some species which, having no hydroid or strobila state, mature without alternation of generation (metagenesis).
This hydroid is found creeping over seaweeds in tide-pools from Long Island Sound northward.
The hydroid Hydractinia polyclina often covers the exterior of such shells with a brown, velvety growth.

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