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What (who) is zooid - definition

Zooid

SINGLE ANIMAL THAT IS PART OF A COLONIAL ANIMAL

Zooids

·adj Pertaining to, or resembling, an Animal.

II. Zooid ·noun An organic body or cell having locomotion, as a spermatic cell or spermatozooid.

III. Zooid ·noun An animal in one of its inferior stages of development, as one of the intermediate forms in alternate generation.

IV. Zooid ·noun One of the individual animals in a composite group, as of Anthozoa, Hydroidea, and Bryozoa;

- sometimes restricted to those individuals in which the mouth and digestive organs are not developed.

zooid

SINGLE ANIMAL THAT IS PART OF A COLONIAL ANIMAL

Zooids

['zu:??d, 'z??-, 'zu:?d]

¦ noun Zoology an animal arising from another by budding or division, especially each of the individuals which make up a colonial organism.

Derivatives

zooidal zu:'??d(?)l, z??-, 'zu:?d(?)l adjective

Origin

C19: from zoo- + -oid.

Zooid

SINGLE ANIMAL THAT IS PART OF A COLONIAL ANIMAL

Zooids

A zooid or zoöid is a single animal that is part of a colonial animal. This lifestyle has been adopted by animals from separate unrelated taxa.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zooid

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Zooid

A zooid or zoöid is a single animal that is part of a colonial animal. This lifestyle has been adopted by animals from separate unrelated taxa.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zooid