What's the difference between coenosarc and zoophyte?
Coenosarc
Definition:
(n.) The common soft tissue which unites the polyps of a compound hydroid. See Hydroidea.
Example Sentences:
(1) In this region coenosarc is just beginning to separate from the perisarc.
(2) Desmocytes or anchoring cells are present on the upright stolons of the athecate hydroid Cordylophora caspia and function to support the soft coenosarc within the rigid tube of perisarc by linking the perisarc with the mesoglea.
Zoophyte
Definition:
(v. i.) Any one of numerous species of invertebrate animals which more or less resemble plants in appearance, or mode of growth, as the corals, gorgonians, sea anemones, hydroids, bryozoans, sponges, etc., especially any of those that form compound colonies having a branched or treelike form, as many corals and hydroids.