Definition of "coelenterate" []

• See cnidarian. (noun)

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• "Cnidaria and Ctenophora are now classified as separate phyla, and the term "coelenterate" sent off to the rubbish heap of obsolete biological terms."
• "So saying, the otter slipped several quivering slabs of coelenterate between two pieces of breadfruit and commenced chewing noisily."
• "Before her drifted the end result of billions of years of coelenterate evolution, a collective organism of unimagined complexity."