HYDROZOA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Hydrozoa mean? 

• HYDROZOA (noun)
  The noun HYDROZOA has 1 sense:

1. coelenterates typically having alternation of generations; hydroid phase is usually colonial giving rise to the medusoid phase by budding: hydras and jellyfishes

  Familiarity information: HYDROZOA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HYDROZOA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Coelenterates typically having alternation of generations; hydroid phase is usually colonial giving rise to the medusoid phase by budding: hydras and jellyfishes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

class Hydrozoa; Hydrozoa

Hypernyms ("Hydrozoa" is a kind of...):

class ((biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more orders)

Meronyms (members of "Hydrozoa"):

hydroid; hydrozoan (colonial coelenterates having the polyp phase dominant)

genus Hydra (hydras)

order Siphonophora; Siphonophora (marine colonial hydrozoans)

genus Sertularia; Sertularia (sessile hydroid that forms feathery colonies)

Holonyms ("Hydrozoa" is a member of...):

Cnidaria; Coelenterata; phylum Cnidaria; phylum Coelenterata (hydras; polyps; jellyfishes; sea anemones; corals)