actinozoa

1. 1.

   a large class of sedentary marine coelenterates that includes sea anemones and corals; the medusoid phase is entirely suppressed

   SynonymsAnthozoaclass Anthozoaclass Actinozoa

   Broaderclass

   Part ofCnidaria

Other forms of actinozoa

plural

actinozoas·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about actinozoa

What does actinozoa mean?

actinozoa means "a large class of sedentary marine coelenterates that includes sea anemones and corals; the medusoid phase is entirely suppressed".

How many syllables are in actinozoa?

actinozoa has 5 syllables: ac-ti-no-zo-a. The stress falls on "no".

What is another word for actinozoa?

Close synonyms include Anthozoa, class Anthozoa, class Actinozoa. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is actinozoa a common word?

actinozoa is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.