Actinozoon :: Actinozoon (n.) One of the Actinozoa.

Antherozooid :: Antherozooid (n.) One of the mobile male reproductive bodies in the antheridia of cryptogams.

Ascidiozooid :: Ascidiozooid (n.) One of the individual members of a compound ascidian. See Ascidioidea.

Calzoons :: Calzoons (n. pl.) Drawers.

Dactylozooid :: Dactylozooid (n.) A kind of zooid of Siphonophora which has an elongated or even vermiform body, with one tentacle, but no mouth. See Siphonophora..

Deuterozooid :: Deuterozooid (n.) One of the secondary, and usually sexual, zooids produced by budding or fission from the primary zooids, in animals having alternate generations. In the tapeworms, the joints are deuterozooids..

Diphyozooid :: Diphyozooid (n.) One of the free-swimming sexual zooids of Siphonophora.

Ectozoon :: Ectozoon (n.) See Epizoon.

Entozoologist :: Entozoologist (n.) One versed in the science of the Entozoa.

Entozoon :: Entozoon (n.) One of the Entozoa.

Enzootic :: Enzootic (a.) Afflicting animals; -- used of a disease affecting the animals of a district. It corresponds to an endemic disease among men.

Eozoon :: Eozoon (n.) A peculiar structure found in the Archaean limestones of Canada and other regions. By some geologists it is believed to be a species of gigantic Foraminifera, but others consider it a concretion, without organic structure..

Eozoonal :: Eozoonal (a.) Pertaining to the eozoon; containing eozoons; as, eozoonal limestone..

Eozoons :: Eozoons (pl. ) of Eozoo.

Epizoon :: Epizoon (n.) One of the artificial group of invertebrates of various kinds, which live parasitically upon the exterior of other animals; an ectozoon. Among them are the lice, ticks, many acari, the lerneans, or fish lice, and other crustaceans..

Epizootic :: Epizootic (a.) Of or pertaining to an epizoon.

Epizootic :: Epizootic (a.) Containing fossil remains; -- said of rocks, formations, mountains, and the like..

Epizootic :: Epizootic (a.) Of the nature of a disease which attacks many animals at the same time; -- corresponding to epidemic diseases among men.

Epizootic :: Epizootic (n.) An epizootic disease; a murrain; an epidemic influenza among horses.

Epizooty :: Epizooty (n.) Alt. of Epizooti.

Gonozooid :: Gonozooid (n.) A sexual zooid, or medusoid bud of a hydroid; a gonophore. See Hydroidea, and Illust. of Campanularian..

Haematozoon :: Haematozoon (n.) A parasite inhabiting the bloo.

Haematozoon :: Haematozoon (n.) Certain species of nematodes of the genus Filaria, sometimes found in the blood of man, the horse, the dog, etc..

Haematozoon :: Haematozoon (n.) The trematode, Bilharzia haematobia, which infests the inhabitants of Egypt and other parts of Africa, often causing death..

Hydrozoon :: Hydrozoon (n.) One of the Hydrozoa.

Hydrozoons :: Hydrozoons (pl. ) of Hydrozoo.

Macrozoospore :: Macrozoospore (n.) A large motile spore having four vibratile cilia; -- found in certain green algae.

Metazoon :: Metazoon (n.) One of the Metazoa.

Microzoospore :: Microzoospore (n.) A small motile spore furnished with two vibratile cilia, found in certain green algae..

Paleozoology :: Paleozoology (n.) The Paleozoic time or strata.

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