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anthozoan en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /anθə(ʊ)ˈzəʊən/ (UK)

Etymology

Etymology tree English Anthozoa Middle English -n English -n English anthozoan From Anthozoa + -n.

Meanings

1. (qualifier:marine biology) A marine invertebrate of the class Anthozoa, such as a sea anemone or coral.
   • In his childhood, he said, he used to walk beside the chalk cliffs of Devon and Cornwall, […] admiring the endless diversity of the semi-sentient marvels oscillating between the vegetable, animal and mineral kingdoms, the zooids and corallines, sea anemones, sea fans and sea feathers, the anthozoans and crustaceans over which the tide washed twice a day […]. 2001, WG Sebald, translated by Anthea Bell, Austerlitz, Penguin, published 2011, page 126:

Forms

Relateds

anthozoic

Translations (4)

fi korallieläin (a marine invertebrate of the class Anthozoa) · pt antozoário (a marine invertebrate of the class Anthozoa) · es antozoo (a marine invertebrate of the class Anthozoa) · fr anthozoaire (a marine invertebrate of the class Anthozoa)