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‖ sertularia Zool.|sɜːtjʊˈlɛərɪə|
Pl. -æ, -as.
[mod.L., f. L. sertula, dim. of serta garland.]
One of a genus of branching hydroids having small sessile hydrothecæ; the genus itself.
1767Phil. Trans. LVII. 434 A great many zoophytes, which were formerly called Corallines, now Sertularias and Cellularias. 1833Mantell Wonders Geol. (1838) 474 The elegant arborescent forms of the Sertulariæ. 1876Van Beneden's Anim. Parasites 62 One of these Halodactyles spreads itself upon the stalk of a Sertularia.
Hence sertuˈlarian a., of or belonging to the genus Sertularia or the family Sertularidæ of hydroids; n. a sertularian hydroid; so ˈsertularid, in the same sense.
1847–9Todd's Cycl. Anat. IV. 47/1 The Sertularian Polypes. Ibid. 49/1 The stem of the Sertularian is composed of two layers. 1861J. R. Greene Man. Anim. Kingd., Cœlent. 90 For no example of a Sertularid has yet been recorded in which the hydrosoma exhibits but a single polypite. |