HYDROID

Hydroid

Hydroids are a life stage for most animals of the class Hydrozoa, small predators related to jellyfish. Some hydroids such as the freshwater Hydra are solitary, with the polyp attached directly to the substrate. When these produce buds, they become detached and grow on as new individuals.

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hydroid

Noun

  1. Any of many colonial coelenterates that exist mainly as a polyp; a hydrozoan

Adjective

  1. Of or pertaining to such creatures


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