coenenchyme


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coenenchyme

(siːˈnɛŋkaɪm) or

coenenchyma

n
(Zoology) the gelatinous framework between polyps of an anthozoan colony
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a) Colonies openly pinnate, almost always flat, b) spindles from coenenchyme (1-4) and flat anthocodial rods (5-6).
The invasive brittle star Ophiothela mirabilis Verrill, 1867 (Echinodermata, Ophiuroidea) in the southwestern Atlantic: filling gaps of distribution, with comments on an octocoral host
Cross-sections of the Sarcophyton auritum polypary 2-3 mm below the surface featured a uniformly pale-turquoisestained coenenchyme, found between the autozooids (hereafter termed "polyps") and the siphonozooids (Fig.
Octocoral Sarcophyton auritum Verseveldt & Benayahu, 1978: Microanatomy and presence of collagen fibers
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Polyps are eight-tentacled and are embedded in a column of fleshy tissue, the coenenchyme, at their base, with the polyp's gastric cavity extending into the coenenchyme.
Identification of unstimulated constitutive immunocytes, by enzyme histochemistry, in the coenenchyme of the octocoral Swiftia exserta
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