单词	dendroid
释义	dendroid /ˈdɛndrɔɪd / adjective Biology (Of a plant, marine invertebrate, or structure) tree-shaped; branching.The intermediate-level benthos was dominated by sponges, corals, giant bivalves, giant brachiopods, stalked echinoderms and fixed dendroid graptolites.... Further, older autozooids in major proximal regions of some large dendroid colonies stopped growing skeletons outwardly as distal colony growth continued. Many dendroid colonies in lower Paleozoic trepostomes developed narrow exozones of young presumably feeding autozooids in cycles that covered growing branch tips. noun Palaeontology A graptolite of a type that formed much-branched colonies, found chiefly in the Ordovician and Silurian periods. Order Dendroidea, class Graptolithina. In the Early Ordovician, many-branched planktonic forms developed from the attached dendroids. Origin Mid 19th century: from dendro- 'tree' + -oid.
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