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Gonocalyx :: Gonocalyx (n.) The bell of a sessile gonozooid.

Oecoid :: Oecoid (n.) The colorless porous framework, or stroma, of red blood corpuscles from which the zooid, or hemoglobin and other substances of the corpuscles, may be dissolved out..

Isogonism :: Isogonism (n.) The quality of having similar sexual zooids or gonophores and dissimilar hydrants; -- said of certain hydroids.

Porpita :: Porpita (n.) A genus of bright-colored Siphonophora found floating in the warmer parts of the ocean. The individuals are round and disk-shaped, with a large zooid in the center of the under side, surrounded by smaller nutritive and reproductive zooids, and by slender dactylozooids near the margin. The disk contains a central float, or pneumatocyst..

Zoanthodeme :: Zoanthodeme (n.) The zooids of a compound anthozoan, collectively..

Hydrocorallia :: Hydrocorallia (n. pl.) A division of Hydroidea, including those genera that secrete a stony coral, as Millepora and Stylaster. Two forms of zooids in life project from small pores in the coral and resemble those of other hydroids. See Millepora..

Foraminifera :: Foraminifera (n. pl.) An extensive order of rhizopods which generally have a chambered calcareous shell formed by several united zooids. Many of them have perforated walls, whence the name. Some species are covered with sand. See Rhizophoda..

Polypite :: Polypite (n.) One of the feeding zooids, or polyps, of a coral, hydroid, or siphonophore; a hydranth. See Illust. of Campanularian..

Adelocodonic :: Adelocodonic (a.) Applied to sexual zooids of hydroids, that have a saclike form and do not become free; -- opposed to phanerocodonic..

Polyp :: Polyp (n.) One of the feeding or nutritive zooids of a hydroid or coral.

Campanularian :: Campanularian (n.) A hydroid of the family ampanularidae, characterized by having the polyps or zooids inclosed in bell-shaped calicles or hydrothecae..

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

Hydrophyllium :: Hydrophyllium (n.) One of the flat, leaflike, protective zooids, covering other zooids of certain Siphonophora..

Sporophore :: Sporogony (n.) The growth or development of an animal or a zooid from a nonsexual germ.

Adnate :: Adnate (a.) Growing with one side adherent to a stem; -- a term applied to the lateral zooids of corals and other compound animals.

Individual :: Individual (n.) An independent, or partially independent, zooid of a compound animal..

Zooecium :: Zooecium (n.) One of the cells or tubes which inclose the feeling zooids of Bryozoa. See Illust. of Sea Moss.

Proliferate :: Proliferate (v. t.) To produce zooids by budding.

Polypide :: Polypide (n.) One of the ordinary zooids of the Bryozoa.

Proliferation :: Proliferation (n.) The production of numerous zooids by budding, especially when buds arise from other buds in succession..

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