cœnosarc

A form of coenosarc — A living body (structure, such as a tube or mesoglea) that is held in common by many organisms included in a composite zoophyte (such as the polyps of a coral, or the zooids of a hydroid), by which they are in connection with each other.

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Meanings

nouncœnosarc (plural cœnosarcs)

plural cœnosarcs

  1. obsoleteObsolete spelling of coenosarc.

    The polype‐cells were not cut off from the common cœnosarc by a septum.

    1872, Sir Roderick Impey Murchison, Siluria, page 539
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