plumularianadj.n.
/ˌpluːmjᵿˈlɛːrɪən/, U.S. /ˌplumjəˈlɛriən/ Zoology.
A. adj.
Of or relating to the hydroid genus Plumularia (see Plumularia n.); resembling or related to hydroids of this genus.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Diploblastica > phylum Coelenterata > [adjective] > of class Hydrozoa > relating to order Campanulariae > relating to family Plummulariidae
plumularian1856
1856 ‘G. Eliot’ in Jrnls. (1998) vii. 266 G...brought home several varieties of Polyps—..Tubularian, Plumularian and Sertularian.
1871 G. J. Allman Monogr. Gymnoblastic Hydroids 156 The beautiful plumularian group represented by the genus Aglaophenia.
1907 Science 17 May 781/1 In the plumularian hydroid Aglaophenia helleri each fully grown internode of the hydrocladium is divided into three regions.
1995 Zool. Verhandelingen No. 300. 3 (heading) Plumularian hydroids..from the strait of Gibraltar and nearby areas.
B. n.
A hydroid of the genus Plumularia.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Diploblastica > phylum Coelenterata > [noun] > class Hydrozoa > order Campanulariae > family Plummulariidae > member of
plumularian1874
1874 Amer. Naturalist 8 38 Just such a colony would a graptolite be, waiting only for the development of hydrotheca to raise it into the condition of a plumularian.
1888 G. Rolleston & W. H. Jackson Forms Animal Life (ed. 2) 765 The colonies [of Hydroidea]..occasionally attain a great height, e.g. a Plumularian in the Pelew Islands that of a man.
1943 Jrnl. Animal Ecol. 12 87/2 Kirchenpaueria pinnata is recorded as the most abundant Plumularian at Plymouth.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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