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SERTULARIAN
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Dictionary entry overview: What does sertularian mean?
• SERTULARIAN (noun)
The noun SERTULARIAN has 1 sense:
1. feathery colony of long-branched stems bearing stalkless paired polyps
Familiarity information: SERTULARIAN used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Feathery colony of long-branched stems bearing stalkless paired polyps
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Hypernyms ("sertularian" is a kind of...):
hydroid; hydrozoan (colonial coelenterates having the polyp phase dominant)
Holonyms ("sertularian" is a member of...):
genus Sertularia; Sertularia (sessile hydroid that forms feathery colonies)
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