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coral
Coral is a hard substance formed from the bones of very small sea animals. It is often used to make jewellery. -
hydrozoan
any freshwater or marine coelenterate of the class Hydrozoa, including free-swimming or attached types, as the hydra, in which one developmental stage, either the polyp or medusa, is absent, and colonial types, as the Portuguese man-of-war, in which both medusa and polyp stages are present in a single colony. -
polypoid
resembling a polyp. -
corallite
the skeleton of a coral polyp -
cup coral
any of several species of coral in which the polyp forms and houses itself in a cup-shaped depression in the skeleton. -
ectoprocta
the phylum Bryozoa, especially as distinguished from the phylum Entoprocta by a body plan having the anus of the polyp outside the crown of tentacles.