cœnosarcn.
/ˈsiːnəʊsɑːk/ Zoology.
The common living basis or ‘flesh’ by which the several individuals forming a compound zoophyte, or polypidom, are united together.
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1849 R. I. Murchison Siluria App. 539 Chitinous investment, surrounding the cœnosarc and polype.
1888 G. Rolleston & W. H. Jackson Forms Animal Life (ed. 2) 245 The hydrosome consists of a number of hydranths or nutritive zooids collectively forming the trophosome, and connected to one another by a branching coenosarc.
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