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Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   An organic body or cell having locomotion, as a spermatic cell or spermatozoid.
2. 2
   one of the distinct individuals forming a colonial animal such as a bryozoan or hydrozoan wordnet
3. 3
   An animal in one of its inferior or early stages of development, as one of the intermediate forms in alternate generation.
4. 4
   One of the individual animals in a composite group, as of Anthozoa, Hydrozoa, and Bryozoa; — sometimes restricted to those individuals in which the mouth and digestive organs are not developed.

Adjective

1. 1
   Relating to, or resembling, an animal.

Synonyms

All synonyms

animalbeingcreatureindividualliving beingmicrobe

Antonyms

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zoon

Etymology

From zoo- + -oid. Compare Ancient Greek ζῴδιον (zōídion, “animal”).

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