CNIDARIAN Synonyms
3 hypernyms for cnidarian. (close relations)
Best Synonyms for CNIDARIAN
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| coral | noun n | |||||
noun • a variable color averaging a deep pink • the hard stony skeleton of a Mediterranean coral that has a delicate red or pink color and is used for jewelry • unfertilized lobster roe; reddens in cooking; used as garnish or to color sauces • marine colonial polyp characterized by a calcareous skeleton; masses in a variety of shapes often forming reefs adjective satellite • of a strong pink to yellowish-pink color | ||||||
| hydra | noun n | |||||
noun • trouble that cannot be overcome by a single effort because of its many aspects or its persistent and pervasive quality • (Greek mythology) monster with nine heads; when struck off each head was replaced by two new ones • small tubular solitary freshwater hydrozoan polyp • a long faint constellation in the Southern Hemisphere near the equator stretching between Virgo and Cancer | ||||||
| hydroid | noun n | |||||
noun • colonial coelenterates having the polyp phase dominant | ||||||
| jellyfish | noun n | |||||
noun • large siphonophore having a bladderlike float and stinging tentacles • any of numerous usually marine and free-swimming coelenterates that constitute the sexually reproductive forms of hydrozoans and scyphozoans | ||||||
| sea anemone | noun n | |||||
noun • marine polyps that resemble flowers but have oral rings of tentacles; differ from corals in forming no hard skeleton | ||||||
| coelenterate | noun n | |||||
noun • radially symmetrical animals having saclike bodies with only one opening and tentacles with stinging structures; they occur in polyp and medusa forms | ||||||