medusoid
Britishadjective
noun
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
These forms may produce additional polyps by budding or may transform into the medusoid form.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015
Polyp forms then transform into the medusoid forms.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015
The polyps may bud to form more polyps and then transform into the medusoid forms.
From Textbooks • Apr. 25, 2013
Optegenetics alone is not adequate to make a free-swimming medusoid respond to light with meaningful behaviors.
From Scientific American • Jul. 25, 2012
So again, Dr. Strethill Wright remarks, "In the life-history of the Hydroidae any phase, planuloid, polypoid, or medusoid, may be absent."
From The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication — Volume 2 by Darwin, Charles
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
