Cnidaria and Ctenophora are now classified as separate phyla, and the term "coelenterate" sent off to the rubbish heap of obsolete biological terms. From Wordnik.com. [New art] Reference
The nerve network of the coelenterate does the same thing, acting as a supermembrane of a supercell. From Wordnik.com. [The Human Brain]
Before her drifted the end result of billions of years of coelenterate evolution, a collective organism of unimagined complexity. From Wordnik.com. [Cachalot]
So saying, the otter slipped several quivering slabs of coelenterate between two pieces of breadfruit and commenced chewing noisily. From Wordnik.com. [The Time of the Transference]
Any stimulus anywhere on the coelenterate body alerts the entire organism indiscriminately and results in a response of the whole, which proceeds to contract, sway, or undulate. From Wordnik.com. [The Human Brain]
The coelenterate system would correspond to a telephone net - work in which all subscribers are on a single party line, so that any call from one to another rouses every one of the subscribers, who are then free to listen and probably do. From Wordnik.com. [The Human Brain]
I know of coral only that is the hard calcareous skeleton of the marine coelenterate polyps; and that this red coral iss called of a sclerobasic group; and other facts of the kind; but I do not know if it iss supposed to resist impact and heat. From Wordnik.com. [African Camp Fires] Reference
A coelenterate. From Wordnik.com. [Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata] Reference
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