phylum cnidaria
English Thesaurus
1. hydras; polyps; jellyfishes; sea anemones; corals (noun.animal)
| hypernym | : | phylum, |
| definition | : | (biology) the major taxonomic group of animals and plants; contains classes (noun.group) |
| member holonym | : | cnidarian, coelenterate, |
| definition | : | radially symmetrical animals having saclike bodies with only one opening and tentacles with stinging structures; they occur in polyp and medusa forms (noun.animal) |
| member holonym | : | polyp, |
| definition | : | one of two forms that coelenterates take (e.g. a hydra or coral): usually sedentary with a hollow cylindrical body usually with a ring of tentacles around the mouth (noun.animal) |
| member holonym | : | medusa, medusan, medusoid, |
| definition | : | one of two forms that coelenterates take: it is the free-swimming sexual phase in the life cycle of a coelenterate; in this phase it has a gelatinous umbrella-shaped body and tentacles (noun.animal) |
| member holonym | : | class scyphozoa, scyphozoa, |
| definition | : | coelenterates in which the polyp stage is absent or at least inconspicuous: jellyfishes (noun.animal) |
| member holonym | : | jellyfish, |
| definition | : | any of numerous usually marine and free-swimming coelenterates that constitute the sexually reproductive forms of hydrozoans and scyphozoans (noun.animal) |
| member holonym | : | class hydrozoa, hydrozoa, |
| definition | : | coelenterates typically having alternation of generations; hydroid phase is usually colonial giving rise to the medusoid phase by budding: hydras and jellyfishes (noun.animal) |
| member meronym | : | metazoa, subkingdom metazoa, |
| definition | : | multicellular animals having cells differentiated into tissues and organs and usually a digestive cavity and nervous system (noun.animal) |
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