anthozoon
English edit
Etymology edit
From antho- + -zoon, after class name Anthozoa.
Noun edit
anthozoon (plural anthozoa)
- (zoology) A member of the class Anthozoa, comprising marine invertebrates including corals and sea anemones. [from 19th c.]
- 2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, Granta Books, published 2013, page 134:
- Unlike stony corals and other anthozoa, whose polyps have sixfold symmetry, the polyps of a gorgonian have eightfold symmetry.