actinozoann.adj.
/ˌaktᵻnəˈzəʊən/, U.S. /ˌæktənəˈzoʊən/ Zoology. Now rare.
A. n.
A member of the class Actinozoa ( Anthozoa); (now) spec. = anthozoan n.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Diploblastica > phylum Coelenterata > [noun] > class Anthozoa Actinozoa > member of
coral1579
animal flower1750
sea-coralline1753
coralline1779
flower-animals1840
corallum1846
anthozoon1849
actinozoon1864
anthozoan1865
actinozoan1876
1876 Proc. Royal Soc. 25 210 Two actinozoans of the highest interest occurred here.
1893 A. E. Shipley Zool. Invertebrata iv. 69 The skeleton commences to appear by the ectoderm..secreting a flat plate between it and the substance on which the young actinozoan is fixed.
1950 W. S. Bullough Pract. Invertebr. Anat. iii. 69 The actinozoans form a large and exclusively marine class.
1976 Undersea Biomed. Res. 3 35 The symbiotic association of zooxanthellae (algae) in the tissues of many actinozoans and hydrozoans..suggests such an adaptation in these tissues.
B. adj.
Of or relating to the class Actinozoa ( Anthozoa); (now) spec. = anthozoan adj.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Diploblastica > phylum Coelenterata > [adjective] > of or relating to the Anthozoa
anthozoic1843
anthozoan1844
anthozooid1851
actinozoal1861
actinozoan1885
madreporid1897
madreporidan1899
1885 Amer. Naturalist 19 1118 This would bring the primitive appendages, after a free existence had been assumed by the supposed ancestral actinozoan type, into about the position in which they grow out in arthropod embryos.
1904 Biol. Bull. 7 75 (title) Notes on a peculiar actinozoan larva.
1963 G. A. Kerkut Borradaile & Potts's Invertebrata (rev. ed.) v. 177 There is no oral cone in the actinozoan polyp, but the mouth is an elongated slit.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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