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Definition of Coenosarc
1. Noun. (zoology) Living body held in common by many organisms included in a composite zoophyte, by which they are in connection with each?other. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Coenosarc
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Coenosarc
Literary usage of Coenosarc
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Contributions from the Bermuda Biological Station for Research by Bermuda Biological Station for Research (1916)
"Evidently the surface of the coenosarc between the polyps is an important ...
The polyp often contracts to the level of the coenosarc with the mouth still ..."
2. A Treatise on Zoology by Edwin Ray Lankester (1900)
"It serves essentially as a protective canal, into which the coenosarc may be ...
The coenosarc is extremely long, tubular, and contractile ; its endoderm is ..."
3. Forms of Animal Life: A Manual of Comparative Anatomy : with Descriptions of by George Rolleston, William Hatchett Jackson (1888)
"The coenosarc of Physalia is produced into a prominent crest, vertical and exposed
above the water in the natural position. The zooids are aggregated in one ..."
4. Bryn Mawr College Monographs by Bryn Mawr College (1904)
"The difference in thickness of coenosarc may also account, in part, for the
different behaviour of different regions of the same stem. ..."
5. Journal of the Royal Microscopical Society by Royal Microscopical Society, London (1882)
"The chief object of the present communication is to demonstrate that the sexual
cells which arise in the coenosarc are normal productions of great ..."
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