Bryozoan Synonyms

brīə-zōən
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
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. polyzoan
  2. sea-mat
  3. sea-moss
  4. moss-animal

Words Related to Bryozoan

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Related:

  1. hydroid
  2. bryozoa
  3. tunicate
  4. amphipod
  5. bugula
  6. gastropod
  7. red-algae
  8. polychaete
  9. echinoderm
  10. foliacea
  11. ascidian
  12. serpula
  13. mollusc
  14. complanata
  15. flustra

Bryozoan Sentence Examples

  • The typical Silurian rocks are richly fossiliferous, the shales containing trilobites, the sandstones many brachiopods, and the limestones a rich coral and bryozoan fauna.

  • In the sublittoral this steep-sided, wave-sheltered reef is dominated by a dense hydroid and bryozoan turf with anemones and ascidians.

  • This is often mistaken as dried seaweed but is actually the remains of a colony of tiny animals called bryozoan.

  • Sea-mat Although the sea-mat called hornwrack resembles dried seaweed it is actually a bryozoan colony of tiny animals called zooids.