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Hydranth
Hy′dranth
,Noun.
[
Hydra
+ Gr. [GREEK] a flower.] (Zool.)
One of the nutritive zooids of a hydroid colony. Also applied to the proboscis or manubrium of a hydroid medusa. See Illust. of
Hydroidea
.