Definition of Coelentera

1. coelenteron [n] - See also: coelenteron

Lexicographical Neighbors of Coelentera

coefficient of inbreeding
coefficient of kinship
coefficient of mutual induction
coefficient of reflection
coefficient of relationship
coefficient of self induction
coefficient of variation
coefficient of viscosity
coefficiently
coefficients
coehorn
coehorns
coelacanth
coelacanthine
coelacanths
coelentera (current term)
coelenterate
coelenterate family
coelenterate genus
coelenterates
coelenterazine
coelenteron
coeliac
coeliac-flux
coeliac (lymphatic) plexus
coeliac (nervous) plexus
coeliac artery
coeliac axis
coeliac branches of vagus nerve
coeliac disease

Literary usage of Coelentera

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Colour in Nature: A Study in Biology by Marion Isabel Newbigin (1898)
"... Variations, and probable Origin—Coloration of Sponges and coelentera —Distribution of Colours—The Colours of Corals and Sea-Anemones—Colour-resemblances ..."

2. Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society by Cambridge Philosophical Society (1892)
"Between the coelentera there is a dense clear ... the coelentera being developed later, and do not communicate directly with the ..."

3. A Treatise on Zoology by Edwin Ray Lankester (1900)
"architectural plan ; and Schulze, whom most authors follow, places the Porifera as a subdivision of the coelentera, marked off by the possession of a ..."

4. A Treatise on Comparative Embryology by Francis Maitland Balfour (1885)
"The coelentera are not wanting in indications of this bilateral symmetry, but for all other higher groups of animals it is a fundamental character. ..."

5. An Introduction to Logic by Horace William Brindley Joseph (1906)
"Such representations are given for coelentera in general, and coelomata in general; yet they are a mere outline, in which even the principal organs of many ..."

6. Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science edited by Biologists Limited, The Company of. (1880)
"... coelentera we find very commonly a series of obes of the body-wall or tentacles produced equally—with IG. 16.—Two Stages in the development of Tornaría. ..."

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