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Hydroid vs Palpocil - What's the difference?

hydroid | palpocil |

As nouns the difference between hydroid and palpocil

is that hydroid is any of many colonial coelenterates that exist mainly as a polyp; a hydrozoan while palpocil is (zoology) a minute soft filamentary process springing from the surface of certain hydroids and sponges.

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

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    palpocil

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (zoology) A minute soft filamentary process springing from the surface of certain hydroids and sponges.
    • (Webster 1913)