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Definition of Alcyonaria
1. Noun. Corals and sea anemones having eight branches.
Generic synonyms: Animal Order
Group relationships: Actinozoa, Anthozoa, Class Actinozoa, Class Anthozoa
Member holonyms: Alcyonacea, Suborder Alcyonacea, Family Pennatulidae, Pennatulidae, Gorgonacea, Gorgoniacea, Suborder Gorgonacea, Suborder Gorgoniacea
Definition of Alcyonaria
1. n. pl. One of the orders of Anthozoa. It includes the Alcyonacea, Pennatulacea, and Gorgonacea.
Medical Definition of Alcyonaria
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Alcyonaria
Literary usage of Alcyonaria
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria by Royal Society of Victoria (Melbourne, Vic.), Royal Society of Victoria (1890)
"(2) Preliminary Report on a Collection of alcyonaria and Zoantharia from Port
... The numerous genera and species of Stoloniferous alcyonaria, which have ..."
2. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1902)
"alcyonaria of the Azores.2 — The explorations of the ... The alcyonaria from the
Azores are increased from six ..."
3. Forms of Animal Life: A Manual of Comparative Anatomy : with Descriptions of by George Rolleston, William Hatchett Jackson (1888)
"Tabulae occur in Tubipora, and Heliopora among alcyonaria, in many extinct ...
There are two perfectly distinct sub-classes, the alcyonaria and Zoantharia. ..."
4. A Student's Text-book of Zoology by Adam Sedgwick, Joseph Jackson Lister, Arthur Everett Shipley (1898)
"The alcyonaria are all marine and, with the exception of the ... SJ Hickson, "
A Revision of the genera of the alcyonaria Stolonifera," Trans. ..."
5. Natural History: A Manual of Zoölogy for Schools, Colleges, and the General by Sanborn Tenney (1869)
"... three orders, — alcyonaria, ... SUB-SECTION I. THE ORDER OF alcyonaria.
This Order contains polyps which have well-developed ..."
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