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hydranth

noun

Etymology

From hydro- + -anth (“flower”).

  1. borrowed from ἄνθος
  2. formed as hydranth — “hydro- + -anth”

Definitions

  1. An individual polyp of a hydroid colony

    • NM Stevens (1902) and Emil Godlewski (1904) described the transformation of pieces of stem to hydranths in the marine hydroid.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for hydranth. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA