actinozoa
English Thesaurus
1. a large class of sedentary marine coelenterates that includes sea anemones and corals; the medusoid phase is entirely suppressed (noun.animal)
| hypernym | : | class, |
| definition | : | (biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more orders (noun.group) |
| member holonym | : | actinozoan, anthozoan, |
| definition | : | sessile marine coelenterates including solitary and colonial polyps; the medusoid phase is entirely suppressed (noun.animal) |
| member holonym | : | actinaria, actiniaria, order actinaria, order actiniaria, |
| definition | : | sea anemones (noun.animal) |
| member holonym | : | alcyonaria, order alcyonaria, |
| definition | : | corals and sea anemones having eight branches (noun.animal) |
| member holonym | : | madreporaria, order madreporaria, |
| definition | : | stony corals (noun.animal) |
| member meronym | : | cnidaria, coelenterata, phylum cnidaria, phylum coelenterata, |
| definition | : | hydras; polyps; jellyfishes; sea anemones; corals (noun.animal) |
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