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Hydroid vs Hydranth - What's the difference?

hydroid | hydranth |

As nouns the difference between hydroid and hydranth

is that hydroid is any of many colonial coelenterates that exist mainly as a polyp; a hydrozoan while hydranth is (zoology) an individual polyp of a hydroid colony.

As an adjective hydroid

is of or pertaining to such creatures.

hydroid

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Any of many colonial coelenterates that exist mainly as a polyp; a hydrozoan

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of or pertaining to such creatures

    • Anagrams

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    hydranth

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (zoology) An individual polyp of a hydroid colony
  • *{{quote-book, 1970, Sylvan Meryl Rose, Regeneration citation
    • , passage=NM Stevens (1902) and Emil Godlewski (1904) described the transformation of pieces of stem to hydranths in the marine hydroid.}}

    Related terms

    *hydrozoan

    See also

    *hydrant