Synonyms for hydroid

Grammar : Noun

Spell : hahy-droid

Phonetic Transcription : ˈhaɪ drɔɪd

Définition of hydroid

As in polyp : noun growth

Example sentences :

You see the hydroid does not in the least resemble a jelly-fish.
Extract from : « Harper's Young People, November 18, 1879 » by Various

Dendroclava, a hydroid, produces the medusa known as Turritopsis.
Extract from : « Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 14, Slice 2 » by Various

The Hydroid Zoophytes are represented in the first plate by the following examples.
Extract from : « Glaucus » by Charles Kingsley

This gigantic creature grows from the small one, called a hydroid, represented in the small cut.
Extract from : « Harper's Young People, November 18, 1879 » by Various

Still there were those who would not have grieved had the firm lost its standing in the Hydroid Fibre case.
Extract from : « The Case and Exceptions » by Frederick Trevor Hill

The illustration shows a plant on which the hydroid Sertularia pumila is growing.
Extract from : « The Sea-beach at Ebb-tide » by Augusta Foote Arnold

A hydroid about one inch high, growing in patches and appearing like tufts of moss on rocks between tide-marks.
Extract from : « The Sea-beach at Ebb-tide » by Augusta Foote Arnold

There are some species which, having no hydroid or strobila state, mature without alternation of generation (metagenesis).
Extract from : « The Sea-beach at Ebb-tide » by Augusta Foote Arnold

This hydroid is found creeping over seaweeds in tide-pools from Long Island Sound northward.
Extract from : « The Sea-beach at Ebb-tide » by Augusta Foote Arnold

The hydroid Hydractinia polyclina often covers the exterior of such shells with a brown, velvety growth.
Extract from : « The Sea-beach at Ebb-tide » by Augusta Foote Arnold

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