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/anθə(ʊ)ˈzəʊən/ · noun
(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 […].
Use anthozoan when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Anthozoan means (marine biology) A marine invertebrate of the class Anthozoa, such as a sea anemone or coral..
Common synonyms include actinozoan.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
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 […].
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