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
- So saying, the otter slipped several quivering slabs of coelenterate between two pieces of breadfruit and commenced chewing noisily. The Time of the Transference
- Some Late Precambrian Ediacaran fossils bear strong resemblances to colonial coelenterates called sea pens.
- In the coelenterate Obelia, the egg develops into a colonial hydroid consisting of a series of branching Hydra-like organisms called polyps.
- Allow for shrinkage Leather corals, unlike some coelenterates, do not spend the entire time fully expanded.
- All forms of animal life, from the coelenterates to the mammals, follow the same path in their embryological development as far as the gastrula stage, but here their paths widely diverge, those of each subkingdom going their own separate ways. The Elements of Geology
- PROTOZOA, the blastosphere by some rare forms, and the gastrula in the essential structure of the COELENTERATES, -- the subkingdom to which the fresh-water hydra and the corals belong. The Elements of Geology
- Surfers more often encounter free-floating coelenterates such as the true jellyfish, Portuguese man-of-war, and box jellyfish.
- Over 200 species of micro-organisms, fish, crustaceans, polychaetes, echinoderms, coelenterates, and molluscs have been identified in the vent areas.
- in some species of coelenterate, polyps are a phase in the life cycle that alternates with a medusoid phase
- Seabather's eruption occurs when a person is exposed to the larvae of certain coelenterates.
