单词 | anthozooid |
释义 | anthozooidadj.n. Zoology. Now rare. = anthozoan adj. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Diploblastica > phylum Coelenterata > [adjective] > of or relating to the Anthozoa anthozoic1843 anthozoan1844 anthozooid1851 actinozoal1861 actinozoan1885 madreporid1897 madreporidan1899 1851 Official Descriptive & Illustr. Catal. Great Exhib. IV. 1261/2 It [sc. red coral] is the stem of an anthozooid zoophyte. 1854 A. Thomson in Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. V. 129/1 Notwithstanding the very close relation in which these animals stand to the Anthozoid Polypes, the form of their ova is not the same. B. n. A polyp; spec. an individual polyp of a colonial anthozoan. In later use also: = anthozoan n. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > colony or compound organism > [noun] > polyp or zooid of colony zooid1851 anthozooid1858 polypite1859 polyp1888 1858 Nat. Hist. Rev. 5 193 In form the Anthozoids, if at rest, would have presented very much the appearance of a spike of thistle-down. 1877 T. H. Huxley Man. Anat. Invertebrated Animals iii. 159 The axial cavity of each anthozooid is in communication with a system of large canals. 1986 Oikos 46 363/2 Only the anthozooid, Phymactis clematis (Drayton) has become established on primary substrate liberated by the barnacles. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2016; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < adj.n.1851 |
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