Bryozoans is an English word. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Bryozoans meaning
plural of bryozoan
Using Bryozoans
- The main meaning on this page is: plural of bryozoan
- In the example corpus, bryozoans often appears in combinations such as: bryozoans are, bryozoans have, of bryozoans.
Context around Bryozoans
- Average sentence length in these examples: 19.6 words
- Position in the sentence: 9 start, 5 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 17 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Bryozoans
- In this selection, "bryozoans" 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, 1891, reproduction, freshwater, ectoprocts, form and must stand out and add context to how "bryozoans" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include asexual reproduction bryozoans are hermaphrodites and bryozoans are among. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "bryozoans" sits close to words such as aav, abdicating and abductor, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with bryozoans
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Bryozoans have spread diseases to fish farms and fishermen. (9 words)
Freshwater bryozoans are preyed on by snails, insects, and fish. (10 words)
Bryozoans have contributed to carbonate sedimentation in marine life since the Ordovician period. (13 words)
However, no participants had been recruited by the end of December 2008, when the study was scheduled for completion. citation About convert of bryozoans must processed to extract convert of bryostatin. (31 words)
The method of connection varies between the different classes of bryozoans, ranging from quite large gaps in the body walls to small pores through which nutrients are passed by funiculi. (30 words)
They also produce toxins that prevent other sessile organisms such as bryozoans or sea squirts from growing on or near them, making sponges very effective competitors for living space. (29 words)
Example sentences (17)
Bryozoans are among the three dominant groups of Paleozoic fossils. citation The oldest species with a mineralized skeleton occurs in the Lower Ordovician.
Bryozoans are an immobile species typically residing on hard natural stone including, but not limited to: grains, shells, and rocks.
Bryozoans form colonies consisting of clones called zooids that are typically about convert long.
Bryozoans have contributed to carbonate sedimentation in marine life since the Ordovician period.
Bryozoans have no specialized sense organs, but cilia on the tentacles act as sensors.
Bryozoans have spread diseases to fish farms and fishermen.
By 1891 bryozoans (ectoprocts) were grouped with phoronids in a super-phylum called "Tentaculata".
Colonies of some encrusting species also produce special heterozooids to limit the expansion of other encrusting organisms, especially other bryozoans.
Even though colonies of zooids grow through asexual reproduction, Bryozoans are hermaphrodites and colonies are started through sexual reproduction.
Freshwater bryozoans are preyed on by snails, insects, and fish.
However, no participants had been recruited by the end of December 2008, when the study was scheduled for completion. citation About convert of bryozoans must processed to extract convert of bryostatin.
Instead, it concluded that brachiopods and phoronids formed a monophyletic group, but bryozoans (ectoprocts) were closest to entoprocts, supporting the original definition of "Bryozoa".
Such sediment is customarily found in freshwater type marine niches, although a majority of Bryozoans develop in marine landscapes.
The method of connection varies between the different classes of bryozoans, ranging from quite large gaps in the body walls to small pores through which nutrients are passed by funiculi.
They also produce toxins that prevent other sessile organisms such as bryozoans or sea squirts from growing on or near them, making sponges very effective competitors for living space.
They are native to all five oceans making them a more cosmopolitan species. citation Bryozoans are generally associated with the term colonies.
While the currents that bryozoans generate to draw food towards the mouth are well understood, the exact method of capture is still debated.
Common combinations with bryozoans
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- bryozoans are 5×
- bryozoans have 3×
- of bryozoans 3×
- bryozoans ectoprocts 2×