hydrozoan
any freshwater or marine coelenterate of the class Hydrozoa, including free-swimming or attached types, as the hydra, in which one developmental stage, either the polyp or medusa, is absent, and colonial types, as the Portuguese man-of-war, in which both medusa and polyp stages are present in a single colony.
belonging or pertaining to the Hydrozoa.
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How to use hydrozoan in a sentence
For one tiny hydrozoan creature from the coast of Italy, avoiding death is something that just, well, happens—over and over and over again.
British Dictionary definitions for hydrozoan
/ (ˌhaɪdrəʊˈzəʊən) /
any colonial or solitary coelenterate of the class Hydrozoa, which includes the hydra, Portuguese man-of-war, and the sertularians
of, relating to, or belonging to the Hydrozoa
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