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Definition of bryozoan in English: bryozoannoun ˌbrʌɪəˈzəʊənˌbrīəˈzōən Zoology A sedentary aquatic invertebrate of the phylum Bryozoa, which comprises the moss animals. Example sentencesExamples - They include bivalves, brachiopods, bryozoans, crinoids, gastropods, a possible monoplacophoran, nautiloids and a possible serpulid or microconchid.
- The greatest tentacle length in a bryozoan lophophore known to us is 1.2 mm, reported by Cook from a highly obliquely truncate lophophore in a colony of the ctenostome Flustrellida hispida.
- Interspersed among the archaeocidarids are three less common echinoid species as well as occasional crinoids, brachiopods, bryozoans, and rare edrioasteroids and asterozoans.
- Commonly, the host is a brachiopod, but it may be a coral, bryozoan colony, crinoid stem, or mollusk.
- There are more than 50 fish species whose lives are linked to Sargassum, and a myriad of invertebrates, including gastropods, polychaetes, bryozoans, anemones, and sea-spiders.
adjective ˌbrʌɪəˈzəʊənˌbrīəˈzōən Zoology Relating to or denoting bryozoans. Example sentencesExamples - Erect forms were much more common in the Paleozoic than they are now; the majority of today's bryozoan species are encrusting.
- Individuals within all bryozoan colonies are relatively small.
- It is apparent that mining of bryozoan branches weakened them, thus making them subject more readily to breakage by wave action.
- Many of the 5000 or so bryozoan species exhibit polymorphism.
- Bryozoan colonies are important food sources for some sea slugs and fish.
Rhymes anthozoan, Goan, hydrozoan, Minoan, protozoan, protozoon, rowan, Samoan, spermatozoon Definition of bryozoan in US English: bryozoannounˌbrīəˈzōən Zoology A sedentary aquatic invertebrate of the phylum Bryozoa, which comprises the moss animals. Example sentencesExamples - They include bivalves, brachiopods, bryozoans, crinoids, gastropods, a possible monoplacophoran, nautiloids and a possible serpulid or microconchid.
- Interspersed among the archaeocidarids are three less common echinoid species as well as occasional crinoids, brachiopods, bryozoans, and rare edrioasteroids and asterozoans.
- The greatest tentacle length in a bryozoan lophophore known to us is 1.2 mm, reported by Cook from a highly obliquely truncate lophophore in a colony of the ctenostome Flustrellida hispida.
- There are more than 50 fish species whose lives are linked to Sargassum, and a myriad of invertebrates, including gastropods, polychaetes, bryozoans, anemones, and sea-spiders.
- Commonly, the host is a brachiopod, but it may be a coral, bryozoan colony, crinoid stem, or mollusk.
adjectiveˌbrīəˈzōən Zoology Relating to or denoting bryozoans. Example sentencesExamples - Erect forms were much more common in the Paleozoic than they are now; the majority of today's bryozoan species are encrusting.
- Bryozoan colonies are important food sources for some sea slugs and fish.
- It is apparent that mining of bryozoan branches weakened them, thus making them subject more readily to breakage by wave action.
- Many of the 5000 or so bryozoan species exhibit polymorphism.
- Individuals within all bryozoan colonies are relatively small.
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