Relating to or having the nature of coenenchyma; describing colonial organisms that possess shared connecting tissue.
From coenenchyma + -ous (full of, possessing). This adjective form allows biologists to describe characteristics of organisms with integrated tissue systems.
When scientists want to describe a colonial coral as 'having that shared-tissue thing going on,' they use this word—it's the technical way of saying an organism is fundamentally built as a connected community rather than individual units.
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