zooid Meaning, Definition & Usage
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noun one of the distinct individuals forming a colonial animal such as a bryozoan or hydrozoan
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Zo"oid adjective
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(Biol.) Pertaining to, or resembling, an animal.
Zo"oid noun
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(Biol.) An organic body or cell having locomotion, as a spermatic cell or spermatozooid. -
(Zoöl.) (a) An animal in one of its inferior stages of development, as one of the intermediate forms in alternate generation. (b) One of the individual animals in a composite group, as of Anthozoa, Hydroidea, and Bryozoa; -- sometimes restricted to those individuals in which the mouth and digestive organs are not developed.