noun
- The common skeleton or structure formed by a colony of polyps, especially in corals and bryozoans.
Usage: zoology; technical
Examples
- The polyparium of the coral colony provides structural support for thousands of individual polyps.
- Marine biologists studied the polyparium to understand how the colony grows over time.
- The intricate polyparium of the bryozoan colony was visible under the microscope.
- Fossil polyparia reveal information about ancient marine ecosystems.