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actinozoan

American

[ak-tin-uh-zoh-uhn, ak-tuh-nuh-] / ækˌtɪn əˈzoʊ ən, ˌæk tə nə- /

noun

Zoology.

anthozoan.

actinozoan British

/ ˌæktɪnəʊˈzəʊən /

noun

another word for anthozoan

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Etymology

Origin of actinozoan

actino- + -zo(a) + -an

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We shall here focus attention upon one interesting line of speculation followed out in this country particularly by Sedgwick—the theory of the Actinozoan ancestry of segmented animals.

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