Definition of Hydranths. Meaning of Hydranths. Synonyms of Hydranths

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Definition of Hydranths

Hydranth
Hydranth Hy"dranth, n. [Hydra + Gr. ? a flower.] (Zo["o]l.) One of the nutritive zooids of a hydroid colony. Also applied to the proboscis or manubrium of a hydroid medusa. See Illust. of Hydroidea.

Meaning of Hydranths from wikipedia

- an article on "hydranth", but its sister project Wiktionary does: Read the Wiktionary entry "hydranth" You can also: Search for Hydranth in Wikipedia to...
- lost, and subsequent development shares resemblances with other hydranths. Other hydranths are specialized for defense. The main stalky body of the colony...
- olynthus, gemmule In Cnidaria: ephyra, scyphistoma, strobila, gonangium, hydranth, polyp, medusa In Mollusca: paralarva, young cephalopods In Platyhelminthes:...
- grow into hydranths. Colonies of O. geniculata are sessile, so they feed through suspension feeding. In the polyp stage, feeding hydranths use their tentacles...
- species worldwide. These hydrozoans always have a polyp stage. Their hydranths grow either solitary or in colonies. There is no firm perisarc around...
- much-reduced hydranths and are usually protected in a peridermal (i.e. belonging to a hydroid perisarc) gonotheca. Medusae forming on fully developed hydranths are...
- or colonial. When colonial, the hydranths or hydroid polyps are either linked by stolons or are branched. The hydranths have one or more whorls of fine...
- tubes enveloping a branch from a coenosarcal strand and wedged in between older tubes, peri. = perisarc, ram.1/2/3 = short bearing hydranths, st. = stem....
- feeding polyps known as hydranths near their tips. Each hydranth has about twenty tentacles but no nematop****s. These hydranths are connected with the...
- borne on much reduced hydranths and usually protected in a peridermal gonotheca. Medusae forming on fully developed hydranths are extremely rare; usually...