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Medusoid   Listen
noun
Medusoid  n.  (Zool.) A sessile gonophore.






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"Medusoid" Quotes from Famous Books



... both forms are adapted in their structure as a whole, and in every detail to the conditions of their life. A sudden origin, in a natural way, of numerous adaptations is inconceivable. Even the degeneration of a medusoid from a free-swimming animal to a mere brood-sac (gonophore) is not sudden and saltatory, but occurs by imperceptible modifications throughout hundreds of years, as we can learn from the numerous stages of the process ...
— Evolution in Modern Thought • Ernst Haeckel



Words linked to "Medusoid" :   cnidarian, Coelenterata, phylum Cnidaria, Cnidaria, medusan



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