Definition of zooid

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Zooid (n.) An animal in one of its inferior stages of development, as one of the intermediate forms in alternate generation..

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Ascidiozooid :: Ascidiozooid (n.) One of the individual members of a compound ascidian. See Ascidioidea.
Isogonism :: Isogonism (n.) The quality of having similar sexual zooids or gonophores and dissimilar hydrants; -- said of certain hydroids.
Ooecium :: Ooecium (n.) One of the special zooids, or cells, of Bryozoa, destined to receive and develop ova; an ovicell. See Bryozoa..
Campanularian :: Campanularian (n.) A hydroid of the family ampanularidae, characterized by having the polyps or zooids inclosed in bell-shaped calicles or hydrothecae..
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..
Proliferation :: Proliferation (n.) The production of numerous zooids by budding, especially when buds arise from other buds in succession..
Zooid :: Zooid (n.) An organic body or cell having locomotion, as a spermatic cell or spermatozooid..
Antherozooid :: Antherozooid (n.) One of the mobile male reproductive bodies in the antheridia of cryptogams.
Sporophore :: Sporogony (n.) The growth or development of an animal or a zooid from a nonsexual germ.
Spermatozooid :: Spermatozooid (n.) A spermatozoid.
Person :: Person (n.) A shoot or bud of a plant; a polyp or zooid of the compound Hydrozoa Anthozoa, etc.; also, an individual, in the narrowest sense, among the higher animals..
Polypide :: Polypide (n.) One of the ordinary zooids of the Bryozoa.
Zoanthus :: Zoanthus (n.) A genus of Actinaria, including numerous species, found mostly in tropical seas. The zooids or polyps resemble small, elongated actinias united together at their bases by fleshy stolons, and thus forming extensive groups. The tentacles are small and bright colored..
Protozoon :: Protozoon (n.) A single zooid of a compound protozoan.
Sporocyst :: Sporocyst (n.) An asexual zooid, usually forming one of a series of larval forms in the agamic reproduction of various trematodes and other parasitic worms. The sporocyst generally develops from an egg, but in its turn produces other larvae by internal budding, or by the subdivision of a part or all of its contents into a number of minute germs. See Redia..
Taster :: Taster (n.) One of a peculiar kind of zooids situated on the polyp-stem of certain Siphonophora. They somewhat resemble the feeding zooids, but are destitute of mouths. See Siphonophora..
Zooid :: Zooid (a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, an animal..
Simple :: Simple (a.) Consisting of a single individual or zooid; as, a simple ascidian; -- opposed to compound..
Ascidiarium :: Ascidiarium (n.) The structure which unites together the ascidiozooids in a compound ascidian.
Hydrophyllium :: Hydrophyllium (n.) One of the flat, leaflike, protective zooids, covering other zooids of certain Siphonophora..
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