hydranth

noun

hy·​dranth ˈhī-ˌdran(t)th 

: one of the feeding zooids of a hydroid colony

Word History

Etymology

New Latin Hydra hydra + Greek ánthos "flower" — more at antho-

Note: The word was probably introduced by the Irish-born biologist George James Allman (1812-98) in A Monograph of the Gymnoblastic or Tubularian Hydroids (London, 1871), p. xiv.

First Known Use

1874, in the meaning defined above