Meanings
- not comparablebiologyOf or relating to the zoanthids (taxonomic order Zoanthidea).
We found solitary and clustered zoanthidean anemones, possibly the same we had been seeing in many variations.
1951, John Steinbeck, The Log from the Sea of Cortez
plural zoanthideans
- biologyA member of the zoanthids (taxonomic order Zoanthidea).
Knobby zoanthidean Palythoa mammiilosa
2013, Gilbert L. Voss, Seashore Life of Florida and the Caribbean, page 46
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