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sertularian
[ sur-choo-lair-ee-uhn ]
noun
Zoology.
- a type of hydroid that forms stiff, feathery colonies in which the cups holding the zooids are sessile.
sertularian
/ ˌɜːʊˈɛəɪə /
noun
- any of various hydroid coelenterates of the genus Sertularia, forming feathery colonies of long branched stems bearing stalkless paired polyps
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51Թ History and Origins
Origin of sertularian1
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51Թ History and Origins
Origin of sertularian1
C18: from New Latin ٳܱ, from Latin sertula diminutive of serta a garland
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This fossil, referred, though somewhat doubtfully, to a form of hydrozoid or sertularian polyp, has not yet been met with in strata above the Silurian.
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About six species of Graptolite, a peculiar group of sertularian fossils before alluded to as being confined to Silurian rocks, occur in this shale.
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