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单词 anthomedusae
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Anthomedusaen.

Brit. /ˌanθə(ʊ)mᵻˈdjuːziː/, U.S. /ˌænθəməˈd(j)uzi/, /ˌænθoʊməˈd(j)uzi/
Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin Anthomedusae.
Etymology: < scientific Latin Anthomedusae, group name ( Haeckel Das System der Medusen (1879) 11: see note) < antho- antho- comb. form + Medusae , plural of Medusa , former genus name (see Medusa n.), apparently so called on account of the resemblance of some forms to flowers.Haeckel apparently used the German form of the group name sightly earlier: Anthomedusen, plural (1879, in Sitzungsber. der Jenaischen Ges. f. Med. u. Naturwissensch.: Suppl. zur Zeitschr. f. Naturwissensch. 12 p. cv, reporting a meeting in December 1878).
Zoology.
With plural agreement. An order of hydroid coelenterates (class Hydrozoa) having a polyp stage that lacks a perisarc and a free-living medusa stage typically having a simple bell shape with the gonads situated primarily on the manubrium; (also) medusae of this type.
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1879 Amer. Naturalist 13 653 Ctenaria..is regarded by Hæckel as an immediate transitional form from Gemmaria-like Anthomedusæ to Cydippe-like Ctenophora.
1900 Proc. Royal Irish Acad. 1898–1900 5 695 All the Anthomedusæ found at Valencia have, with one exception, been taken at or near Plymouth.
1996 C. D. Todd et al. Coastal Marine Zooplankton (ed. 2) Fig. 2 (caption) Anthomedusae are invariably from athecate hydroids whilst leptomedusae are normally from thecate hydroids (rarely from naked hydranths).
2003 D. I. Williamson Origins of Larvae (rev. ed.) v. 48 Such medusae, known as anthomedusae..are bell-shaped, and the gonads develop on the manubrium or mouth-tube.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2016; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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