COELENTERATE • FREE-TRANSLATOR.COM • Definition of Coelenterate

... possession of a tail. Earlier observers had obtained it on various parts of the ocean surface, but had failed entirely to detect its relationship to the ordinary Ascidians. Chamisso got it near Behring's Straits and thought that it was more nearly allied to "Venus's Girdle," a Coelenterate. Mertens, another distinguished zooelogist, had declared that "the relation of this animal with the Pteropods (a peculiar group of molluscs) is unmistakable"; while Mueller, a prince among German anatomists, confessed that "he ...

— Thomas Henry Huxley; A Sketch Of His Life And Work • P. Chalmers Mitchell