Hydroid

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• Hydroid — may refer to:Marine BiologyColonial, plant like animals closely related to jellyfish, with stinging cellsany member of the invertebrate order Hydroida (class Hydrozoa, phylum Cnidaria). Hydroids have three basic life cycle stages: (1) a tiny free …   Wikipedia

• hydroid — 1> зоол. гидроид 2> зоол. гидроидный …   Новый большой англо-русский словарь

• hydroid — /huy droyd/, adj. 1. noting or pertaining to that form of hydrozoan that is asexual and grows into branching colonies by budding. n. 2. the phase of a hydrozoan coelenterate that consists of polyp forms usually growing as an attached colony.… …   Universalium

• hydroid — I. adjective Etymology: ultimately from New Latin Hydra Date: circa 1864 of or relating to a hydrozoan; especially resembling a typical hydra II. noun Date: 1865 hydrozoan; especially a hydrozoan polyp as distinguished from a hydrozoan jellyfish …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• hydroid — n. [Gr. hydor, water; eidos, like] (CNIDARIA) Polyp of coelenterates; any member of the Hydroida …   Dictionary of invertebrate zoology

• hydroid — гидроидный полип …   Англо-русский геологический словарь

• hydroid — 1) гидроид 2) гидроидный …   Англо-русский технический словарь

• hydroid — 1. noun Any of many colonial coelenterates that exist mainly as a polyp; a hydrozoan 2. adjective Of or pertaining to such creatures …   Wiktionary

• гидроид — hydroid …   Большой англо-русский и русско-английский словарь

• гидроидный — hydroid …   Большой англо-русский и русско-английский словарь