ALCYONARIAN


Meaning of ALCYONARIAN in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ ˌal-sē-ə-ˈner-ē-ən ]

noun

Etymology: ultimately from Greek alkyoneion, a zoophyte, from neuter of alkyoneios of a kingfisher, from alkyon kingfisher; from its resemblance to a kingfisher's nest

Date: 1878

: any of a subclass (Alcyonaria) of colonial anthozoans (as the sea pens) having polyps with eight branched tentacles and eight septa

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