CRANIATE Antonyms

• a variable color averaging a deep pink

• the hard stony skeleton of a Mediterranean coral that has a delicate red or pink color and is used for jewelry

• unfertilized lobster roe; reddens in cooking; used as garnish or to color sauces

• marine colonial polyp characterized by a calcareous skeleton; masses in a variety of shapes often forming reefs

• of a strong pink to yellowish-pink color

• lacking a backbone or spinal column

• any animal lacking a backbone or notochord; the term is not used as a scientific classification

• large siphonophore having a bladderlike float and stinging tentacles

• any of numerous usually marine and free-swimming coelenterates that constitute the sexually reproductive forms of hydrozoans and scyphozoans

• invertebrate having a soft unsegmented body usually enclosed in a shell

• tentacles of octopus prepared as food

• bottom-living cephalopod having a soft oval body with eight long tentacles

• a porous mass of interlacing fibers that forms the internal skeleton of various marine animals and usable to absorb water or any porous rubber or cellulose product similarly used

• someone able to acquire new knowledge and skills rapidly and easily

• a follower who hangs around a host (without benefit to the host) in hope of gain or advantage

• primitive multicellular marine animal whose porous body is supported by a fibrous skeletal framework; usually occurs in sessile colonies

• wipe with a sponge, so as to clean or moisten

• ask for and get free; be a parasite

• erase with a sponge; as of words on a blackboard

• soak up with a sponge

• gather sponges, in the ocean

• any of numerous relatively small elongated soft-bodied animals especially of the phyla Annelida and Chaetognatha and Nematoda and Nemertea and Platyhelminthes; also many insect larvae

• a person who has a nasty or unethical character undeserving of respect

• a software program capable of reproducing itself that can spread from one computer to the next over a network

• screw thread on a gear with the teeth of a worm wheel or rack

• to move in a twisting or contorted motion, (especially when struggling)

• marine polyps that resemble flowers but have oral rings of tentacles; differ from corals in forming no hard skeleton

• ascidian that can contract its body and eject streams of water