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hydroplane

[hahy-druh-pleyn] / ˈhaɪ drəˌpleɪn /
NOUN
racing boat
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One woman who found one of the free-floating hydrozoans on Tenby South beach said it was "like a crystal".

From BBC • Jun. 18, 2026

"We found a large number of jellyfish in the stomachs of the amphipods, from the largest jellyfish in the fjord to tiny hydrozoans," explains Charlotte Havermans.

From Science Daily • Feb. 14, 2024

Such hydrozoans form a subgroup of Cnidaria, a phylum whose members also include jellyfish and coral.

From Scientific American • May 3, 2023

The hydrozoans contain sessile forms and swimming colonial forms like the Portuguese Man O’ War.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015

STROMATOPORA—colonies of minute hydrozoans allied to corals—grew in places on the sea floor, secreting stony masses composed of thin, close, concentric layers, connected by vertical rods.

From The Elements of Geology by Norton, William Harmon




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