NOUN
- radially symmetrical animals having saclike bodies with only one opening and tentacles with stinging structures; they occur in polyp and medusa forms
How To Use coelenterate In A Sentence
- Before long, similar green proteins were detected in many bioluminescent coelenterates including various medusae, apparently all luminescent hydroid polyps, and a few others.
- The essence of all these propositions," he writes, "lies in the fact that the segmented animals are traced back not to a triploblastic unsegmented ancestor, but to a two-layered Coelenterate-like animal with Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology
- Before her drifted the end result of billions of years of coelenterate evolution, a collective organism of unimagined complexity. Cachalot
- Others appear to have been solitary coelenterate medusoids attached to the sea floor.
- Cnidaria and Ctenophora are now classified as separate phyla, and the term "coelenterate" sent off to the rubbish heap of obsolete biological terms. New art
- The nerve network of the coelenterate does the same thing, acting as a supermembrane of a supercell. The Human Brain
- Any stimulus anywhere on the coelenterate body alerts the entire organism indiscriminately and results in a response of the whole, which proceeds to contract, sway, or undulate. The Human Brain
- However, actinians, like all coelenterates, capture and digest animal prey with their nematocysts.
- I know of coral only that is the hard calcareous skeleton of the marine coelenterate polyps; and that this red coral iss called of a sclerobasic group; and other facts of the kind; but I do not know if it iss supposed to resist impact and heat. African Camp Fires
- Why, for instance, should the blastopore so often appear as a long slit, closing by concrescence, unless this had been the original method of its formation in remote Coelenterate ancestors? Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology