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Anthozoa

noun
1.
A large class of sedentary marine coelenterates that includes sea anemones and corals; the medusoid phase is entirely suppressed.  Synonyms: Actinozoa, class Actinozoa, class Anthozoa.



Anthozoan

noun
(pl. anthozoa)
1.
Sessile marine coelenterates including solitary and colonial polyps; the medusoid phase is entirely suppressed.  Synonym: actinozoan.



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... difficult to say whether this is owing to their deoxygenating the water while alive, like other animals, or to the fact that it is very rare to get a specimen of zoophyte in which a large number of the polypes have not been killed in the transit home, or at least so far knocked about, that (in the Anthozoa, which are far the most abundant) the polype - or rather living mouth, for it is little more - is thrown off to decay, pending the growth of a fresh one in ...
— Glaucus; or The Wonders of the Shore • Charles Kingsley



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