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zooid |
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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