sertularian

American

[sur-choo-lair-ee-uhn] / ˌsɜr tʃʊˈlɛər i ən /

noun

Zoology.

a type of hydroid that forms stiff, feathery colonies in which the cups holding the zooids are sessile.

sertularian British

/ ˌsɜːtjʊˈlɛərɪən /

noun

any of various hydroid coelenterates of the genus Sertularia, forming feathery colonies of long branched stems bearing stalkless paired polyps

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Etymology

Origin of sertularian

1840–50; < New Latin Sertulari ( a ) genus name ( Latin sertul ( a ), diminutive of serta wreath + -āria -aria ) + -an

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This fossil, referred, though somewhat doubtfully, to a form of hydrozoid or sertularian polyp, has not yet been met with in strata above the Silurian.

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About six species of Graptolite, a peculiar group of sertularian fossils before alluded to as being confined to Silurian rocks, occur in this shale.

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