Definition of phylum coelenterata Phylum coelenterata
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| phylum coelenterata - hydras; polyps; jellyfishes; sea anemones; corals | ||
| Cnidaria, phylum Cnidaria, Coelenterata, phylum Coelenterata | ||
| phylum (biology) the major taxonomic group of animals and plants; contains classes | ||
| metazoa, subkingdom metazoa multicellular animals having cells differentiated into tissues and organs and usually a digestive cavity and nervous system | ||
| cnidarian, coelenterate radially symmetrical animals having saclike bodies with only one opening and tentacles with stinging structures; they occur in polyp and medusa forms | ||
| polyp 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; "in some species of coelenterate, polyps are a phase in the life cycle that alternates with a medusoid phase" | ||
| medusan, medusoid, medusa 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 | ||
| class scyphozoa, scyphozoa coelenterates in which the polyp stage is absent or at least inconspicuous: jellyfishes | ||
| jellyfish any of numerous usually marine and free-swimming coelenterates that constitute the sexually reproductive forms of hydrozoans and scyphozoans | ||
| class hydrozoa, hydrozoa coelenterates typically having alternation of generations; hydroid phase is usually colonial giving rise to the medusoid phase by budding: hydras and jellyfishes | ||
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