Get to know Hydrozoan better with 3 real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like cnidarian.
Hydrozoan meaning
Any of many colonial coelenterates, of the class Hydrozoa, including the hydras, hydroids, hydrocorals, and siphonophores.
Synonyms of Hydrozoan
Using Hydrozoan
- The main meaning on this page is: Any of many colonial coelenterates, of the class Hydrozoa, including the hydras, hydroids, hydrocorals, and siphonophores.
- Useful related words include: hydroid, coelenterate, cnidarian.
Context around Hydrozoan
- Average sentence length in these examples: 21.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 0 middle, 0 end
- Sentence types: 3 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Hydrozoan
- In this selection, "hydrozoan" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 21.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, polyps, larvae and jellyfish stand out and add context to how "hydrozoan" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include hydrozoan polyps only and scyphozoan and hydrozoan larvae have. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "hydrozoan" sits close to words such as aabc, aacr and aacsb, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with hydrozoan
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Hydrozoan polyps only bud, while the medusae of some hydrozoans can divide down the middle. (15 words)
Scyphozoan and hydrozoan larvae have little yolk and most lack endosymbiotic algae, and therefore have to settle quickly and metamorphose into polyps. (22 words)
Unlike the hydrozoan jellyfish, Hydromedusae, Scyphomedusae lack a vellum, which is a circular membrane beneath the umbrella that helps propels the (usually smaller) Hydromedusae through the water. (27 words)
Unlike the hydrozoan jellyfish, Hydromedusae, Scyphomedusae lack a vellum, which is a circular membrane beneath the umbrella that helps propels the (usually smaller) Hydromedusae through the water. (27 words)
Scyphozoan and hydrozoan larvae have little yolk and most lack endosymbiotic algae, and therefore have to settle quickly and metamorphose into polyps. (22 words)
Hydrozoan polyps only bud, while the medusae of some hydrozoans can divide down the middle. (15 words)
Example sentences (3)
Hydrozoan polyps only bud, while the medusae of some hydrozoans can divide down the middle.
Scyphozoan and hydrozoan larvae have little yolk and most lack endosymbiotic algae, and therefore have to settle quickly and metamorphose into polyps.
Unlike the hydrozoan jellyfish, Hydromedusae, Scyphomedusae lack a vellum, which is a circular membrane beneath the umbrella that helps propels the (usually smaller) Hydromedusae through the water.