lucernarianadj.n.
/l(j)uːsəˈnɛːrɪən/ Zoology.
A. adj.
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Belonging to the genus Lucernaria typical of the family Lucernariidæ of hydrozoa.
B. n.
A hydrozoan of this genus or family.
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1854 A. Adams et al. Man. Nat. Hist. 355 Lucernarians.
Derivatives
luˈcernarid adj.
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1861 J. R. Greene Man. Animal Kingdom II. 123 The developmental cycle of each Lucernarid.
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lucerˈnaridan adj. and n. (a) adj. pertaining to the Lucernarida, a sub-class of hydrozoa; (b) n. a member of the Lucernarida.
luˈcernaroid n. the reproductive zooid of any of the Lucernarida.
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1861 J. R. Greene Man. Animal Kingdom II. 123 A fixed and sexless ‘Lucernaroid’.
1870 H. A. Nicholson Man. Zool. I. 90 The Hydra-tuba thus constitutes the fixed ‘Lucernaroid’, or the ‘trophosome’ of one of the Rhizostomidæ.
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adj.n.1854- scale-roof
- scale-shell
- scale-shouldered
- scale-skin
- scale-staircase
- scale-stairs
- scale-stone
- scale-stool
- scale-tail
- scale-tailed
- scale-tailed squirrel
- scale-tang
- scale-up
- scale-wing
- scale-winged
- scale-work
- scale-worm
- scale-wort
- scalearmour
- scaleback
- scalebacked
- scalebar
- scalebark
- scalebeam
- scalebeetle