Word Meanings - HYDRANTH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One of the nutritive zooids of a hydroid colony. Also applied to the proboscis or manubrium of a hydroid medusa. See Illust. of Hydroidea.

Related words: (words related to HYDRANTH)

• APPLICABLE
  Capable of being applied; fit or suitable to be applied; having relevance; as, this observation is applicable to the case under consideration. -- Ap"pli*ca*ble*ness, n. -- Ap"pli*ca*bly, adv.
• APPLICATIVE
  Having of being applied or used; applying; applicatory; practical. Bramhall. -- Ap"pli*ca*tive*ly, adv.
• PROBOSCIS
  A hollow organ or tube attached to the head, or connected with the mouth, of various animals, and generally used in taking food or drink; a snout; a trunk. Note: The proboscis of an elephant is a flexible muscular elongation of the nose.
• APPLICANCY
  The quality or state of being applicable.
• APPLICABILITY
  The quality of being applicable or fit to be applied.
• ILLUSTROUS
  Without luster.
• APPLICATORILY
  By way of application.
• ILLUSTRIOUS
  1. Possessing luster or brightness; brilliant; luminous; splendid. Quench the light; thine eyes are guides illustrious. Beau. & Fl. 2. Characterized by greatness, nobleness, etc.; eminent; conspicuous; distinguished. Illustrious earls, renowened
• COLONY
  A number of animals or plants living or growing together, beyond their usual range. (more info) 1. A company of people transplanted from their mother country to a remote province or country, and remaining subject to the jurisdiction of the parent
• ILLUSTRATIVELY
  By way of illustration or elucidation. Sir T. Browne.
• ILLUSTRATIVE
  1. Tending or designed to illustrate, exemplify, or elucidate. 2. Making illustrious.
• MEDUSA
  The Gorgon; or one of the Gorgons whose hair was changed into serpents, after which all who looked upon her were turned into stone.
• ILLUSTRIOUSNESS
  The state or quality of being eminent; greatness; grandeur; glory; fame.
• APPLICATE
  Applied or put to some use. Those applicate sciences which extend the power of man over the elements. I. Taylor. Applicate number , one which applied to some concrete case. -- Applicate ordinate, right line applied at right angles to the axis of
• ILLUSTRATION
  1. The act of illustrating; the act of making clear and distinct; education; also, the state of being illustrated, or of being made clear and distinct. 2. That which illustrates; a comparison or example intended to make clear or apprehensible,
• APPLICATION
  1. The act of applying or laying on, in a literal sense; as, the application of emollients to a diseased limb. 2. The thing applied. He invented a new application by which blood might be stanched. Johnson. 3. The act of applying as a means; the
• HYDROIDEA
  Note: This order includes the hydras and the free-swimming hydromedusæ, together with a great variety of marine attached hydroids, many of which grow up into large, elegantly branched forms, consisting of a vast number of zooids , united
• ILLUSTRIOUSLY
  In a illustrious manner; conspicuously; eminently; famously. Milton.
• HYDROID
  Related to, or resembling, the hydra; of or pertaining to the Hydroidea. -- n.
• MANUBRIUM
  A handlelike process or part; esp., the anterior segment of the sternum, or presternum, and the handlelike process of the malleus.
• SCYPHOMEDUSA; SCYPHOMEDUSAE
  See DISCOPHORA
• UNAPPLIABLE
  Inapplicable. Milton.
• REAPPLICATION
  The act of reapplying, or the state of being reapplied.
• INAPPLICABILITY
  The quality of being inapplicable; unfitness; inapplicableness.
• POLYPOMEDUSAE
  See HYDROZOA
• CROWN COLONY
  A colony of the British Empire not having an elective magistracy or a parliament, but governed by a chief magistrate appointed by the Crown, with executive councilors nominated by him and not elected by the people.