• (n.) One of a peculiar kind of cups, or calicles, found upon hydroids of the family Plumularidae. They contain nematocysts. See Plumularia. • (n.) One of a peculiar kind of cups, or calicles, found upon hydroids of the family Plumularidae. They contain nematocysts. See Plumularia.
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Nem`a·to·ca'lyx noun ;
plural Nematocalyces , E. -
calyxes . [ New Latin See
Nemato- , and
Calyx .]
(Zoology) One of a peculiar kind of cups, or calicles, found upon hydroids of the family
Plumularidæ . They contain nematocysts. See
Plumu...
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nematocalyx, nematocalycine In certain colonial hydrozoans, a small polyp which has no mouth but engulfs organisms by pseudopodia.
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