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Zooid

Zooid Meaning & Definition
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

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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.

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