About The Word Zooid
Learn about the word Zooid to help solve your crossword puzzle. Discover Zooid definitions and meaning, origins, synonyms, related terms and more at the free Crossword Dictionary.
Zooid
| Zooid Definition And Meaning |
|---|
What's The Definition Of Zooid?
[n] one of the distinct individuals forming a colonial animal such as a bryozoan or hydrozoan
Synonyms | Synonyms for Zooid: Related Terms | Find terms related to Zooid: Zooid In Webster's Dictionary \Zo"oid\, a. [Zo["o]- + -oid.] (Biol.)
Pertaining to, or resembling, an animal.
\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. |
More Crossword Puzzle Words
A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z
Cross Word Of The Day
- Homo habilis ‐ extinct species of upright east African hominid having some advanced…
- Jasminum ‐ shrubs and woody climbers mostly of tropical and temperate Old…
- Deconstruction ‐ a philosophical theory of criticism (usually of literature or…
- Silver wedding anniversary ‐ the 25th wedding…
- Click open ‐ open with a clicking sound; "These keys have clicked open many…
- Wagtail ‐ Old World bird having a very long tail that jerks up and down…
- Diagram ‐ a drawing intended to explain how something works; a drawing…
- File clerk ‐ a clerk who is employed to maintain the files of an…
- Shrub ‐ A woody plant of relatively low height, having several stems…
- Serial port ‐ an interface (commonly used for modems and mice and some printers)…