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Bryozoan meaning
A member of the phylum Bryozoa of aquatic, usually colonial invertebrates.
Synonyms of Bryozoan
Using Bryozoan
- The main meaning on this page is: A member of the phylum Bryozoa of aquatic, usually colonial invertebrates.
- Useful related words include: polyzoan, sea mat, sea moss, moss animal.
- In the example corpus, bryozoan often appears in combinations such as: bryozoan from, cyclostome bryozoan, bryozoan corynotrypa.
Context around Bryozoan
- Average sentence length in these examples: 19.6 words
- Position in the sentence: 7 start, 3 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 12 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Bryozoan
- In this selection, "bryozoan" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 19.6 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, cyclostome, ctenostome, ptilodictyine, corynotrypa, larvae and fenestrulina stand out and add context to how "bryozoan" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a ptilodictyine bryozoan from the and a trepostome bryozoan from the. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "bryozoan" sits close to words such as aadi, aakash and aayush, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with bryozoan
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
In the background is the cyclostome bryozoan Corynotrypa. (8 words)
Prasopora, a trepostome bryozoan from the Ordovician of Iowa. (9 words)
Some encrusting bryozoan colonies with mineralized exoskeletons look very like small corals. (12 words)
Bryozoan larvae vary in form, but all have a band of cilia round the body which enables them to swim, a tuft of cilia at the top, and an adhesive sac that everts and anchors them when they settle on a surface. (42 words)
Ropalonaria venosa, an etching trace fossil of a Late Ordovician ctenostome bryozoan on a strophomenid brachiopod valve; Cincinnatian of southeastern Indiana. citation Phaenopora superba, a ptilodictyine bryozoan from the Silurian of Ohio. (32 words)
Nearly all post- bryozoan sediments are made up of growth forms, with the addition to free-living colonies which include significant numbers of various colonies. (25 words)
Example sentences (12)
Ropalonaria venosa, an etching trace fossil of a Late Ordovician ctenostome bryozoan on a strophomenid brachiopod valve; Cincinnatian of southeastern Indiana. citation Phaenopora superba, a ptilodictyine bryozoan from the Silurian of Ohio.
An Upper Ordovician cobble with the edrioasteroid Cystaster stellatus and the thin branching cyclostome bryozoan Corynotrypa.
Bryozoan larvae vary in form, but all have a band of cilia round the body which enables them to swim, a tuft of cilia at the top, and an adhesive sac that everts and anchors them when they settle on a surface.
Cheilostome bryozoan with serpulid tubes; Recent; Cape Cod Bay, Duck Creek, near Wellfleet, Massachusetts.
In 2014 it was reported that the bryozoan Fenestrulina rugula had become a dominant species in parts of Antarctica.
In the background is the cyclostome bryozoan Corynotrypa.
Nearly all post- bryozoan sediments are made up of growth forms, with the addition to free-living colonies which include significant numbers of various colonies.
Phoronids resemble bryozoan zooids but are convert long and, although they often grow in clumps, do not form colonies consisting of clones.
Prasopora, a trepostome bryozoan from the Ordovician of Iowa.
Scientists' knowledge of freshwater bryozoan populations in many parts of the world is incomplete, even in some parts of Europe.
Some encrusting bryozoan colonies with mineralized exoskeletons look very like small corals.
The cleavage of bryozoan eggs is biradial, in other words the early stages are bilaterally symmetrical.
Common combinations with bryozoan
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: