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English
Etymology
From antho- + -zoon, after class name Anthozoa.
Noun
anthozoon (plural anthozoa)
- (zoology) A member of the class Anthozoa, comprising marine invertebrates including corals and sea anemones.
2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, Granta Books, published 2013, page 134:Unlike stony corals and other anthozoa, whose polyps have sixfold symmetry, the polyps of a gorgonian have eightfold symmetry.