moss animal

What does moss animal mean?

moss animal means "sessile aquatic animal forming mossy colonies of small polyps each having a curved or circular ridge bearing tentacles; attach to stones or seaweed and reproduce by budding".

What is another word for moss animal?

Close synonyms include bryozoan, polyzoan, sea mat, sea moss. 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 moss animal a common word?

moss animal is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for moss animal come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.