Word Meanings - GONOCALYX - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The bell of a sessile gonozooid.

Related words: (words related to GONOCALYX)

• SESSILE-EYED
  Having eyes which are not elevated on a stalk; -- opposed to stalk-eyed. Sessile-eyed Crustacea, the Arthrostraca.
• SESSILE
  Resting directly upon the main stem or branch, without a petiole or footstalk; as, a sessile leaf or blossom. (more info) 1. Attached without any sensible projecting support.
• GONOZOOID
  A sexual zooid, or medusoid bud of a hydroid; a gonophore. See Hydroidea, and Illust. of Campanularian.