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Zooid

//ˈzəʊɔɪd// adj, noun

Definitions

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

Etymology

Etymology 1

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

Etymology 2

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

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