Hydranth

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Hydranth \Hy"dranth\, n. [Hydra + Gr. ? a flower.] (Zool.)
     One of the nutritive zooids of a hydroid colony. Also applied
     to the proboscis or manubrium of a hydroid medusa. See
     Illust. of {Hydroidea}.
     [1913 Webster]