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Definition of zooid
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Zooid (a.)
Pertaining
to, or
resembling,
an
animal..
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Blastostyle
::
Blastostyle
(n.) In
certain
hydroids,
an
imperfect
zooid,
whose
special
function
is to
produce
medusoid
buds. See
Hydroidea,
and
Athecata..
Zooidal
::
Zooidal
(a.) Of or
pertaining
to a
zooid;
as, a
zooidal
form..
Polypide
::
Polypide
(n.) One of the
ordinary
zooids
of the
Bryozoa.
Trophosome
::
Trophosome
(n.) The
nutritive
zooids
of a
hydroid,
collectively,
as
distinguished
from the
gonosome,
or
reproductive
zooids..
Antherozooid
::
Antherozooid
(n.) One of the
mobile
male
reproductive
bodies
in the
antheridia
of
cryptogams.
Ooecium
::
Ooecium
(n.) One of the
special
zooids,
or
cells,
of
Bryozoa,
destined
to
receive
and
develop
ova; an
ovicell.
See
Bryozoa..
Stoloniferous
::
Stolon
(n.) An
extension
of the
integument
of the body, or of the body wall, from which buds are
developed,
giving
rise to new
zooids,
and thus
forming
a
compound
animal
in which the
zooids
usually
remain
united
by the
stolons.
Such
stolons
are often
present
in
Anthozoa,
Hydroidea,
Bryozoa,
and
social
ascidians.
See
Illust.
under
Scyphistoma..
Sporosac
::
Sporosac
(n.) A
hydrozoan
reproductive
zooid or
gonophore
which does not
become
medusoid
in form or
structure.
See
Illust.
under
Athecata.
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..
Polyzoon
::
Polyzoon
(n.) One of the
individual
zooids
forming
the
compound
organism
of a
polyzoan.
Sporophore
::
Sporogony
(n.) The
growth
or
development
of an
animal
or a zooid from a
nonsexual
germ.
Zooid
::
Zooid (n.) An
animal
in one of its
inferior
stages
of
development,
as one of the
intermediate
forms in
alternate
generation..
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..
Systematic
::
System
(n.) One of the
stellate
or
irregular
clusters
of
intimately
united
zooids
which are
imbedded
in, or
scattered
over, the
surface
of the
common
tissue
of many
compound
ascidians..
Individual
::
Individual
(n.) An
independent,
or
partially
independent,
zooid of a
compound
animal..
Proliferous
::
Proliferous
(a.)
Producing
sexual
zooids
by
budding;
-- said of the
blastostyle
of a
hydroid.
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..
Ascidiozooid
::
Ascidiozooid
(n.) One of the
individual
members
of a
compound
ascidian.
See
Ascidioidea.
Protozoon
::
Protozoon
(n.) A
single
zooid of a
compound
protozoan.
Siphonophora
::
Siphonophora
(n. pl.) An order of
pelagic
Hydrozoa
including
species
which form
complex
free-swimming
communities
composed
of
numerous
zooids
of
various
kinds,
some of which act as
floats
or as
swimming
organs,
others
as
feeding
or
nutritive
zooids,
and
others
as
reproductive
zooids.
See
Illust.
under
Physallia,
and
Porpita..
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