3 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Zooid \Zo"oid\, a. [Zo["o]- + -oid.] (Biol.)
Pertaining to or resembling, an animal.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Zooid \Zo"oid\, n.
1. (Biol.) An organic body or cell having locomotion, as a
spermatic cell or spermatozooid.
2. (Zo["o]l.)
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.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
zooid
n : one of the distinct individuals forming a colonial animal
such as a bryozoan or hydrozoan
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