Home
3D
Stylish English
Comic Cartoon
Curly
Decorative
Dingbats
Dotted
Famous
Fire
Gothic
Groovy
Handwriting
Headline
more
Horror
Ice Snow
Modern
Outline
Russian
Sci Fi
Script
Valentine
Alien
Animals
Army Stencil
Asian
Bitmap Pixel
Black Letter
Blurred
Brush
Celtic Irish
Chalk Crayon
Christmas
Computer
Disney
Distorted
Easter
Fantasy
Fixed Width
Graffiti
Greek Roman
Halloween
Italic
LCD
Medieval
Mexican
Movies Tv
Old English
Old School
Pointed
Retro
Rock Stone
Rounded
School
Scratched
Serif
Square
Trash
Typewriter
USA
Various
Western
English to English Dictionary ⇛
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z
Definition of zooid
Thanks for using this online dictionary, we have been helping millions of people improve their use of the english language with its free online services. English definition of zooid is as below...
Zooid (a.)
Pertaining
to, or
resembling,
an
animal..
Lern More About Zooid
☛ Wiki Definition of Zooid
☛ Wiki Article of Zooid
☛ Google Meaning of Zooid
☛ Google Search for Zooid
Proliferate
::
Proliferate
(v. t.) To
produce
zooids
by
budding.
Ascidiozooid
::
Ascidiozooid
(n.) One of the
individual
members
of a
compound
ascidian.
See
Ascidioidea.
Polypide
::
Polypide
(n.) One of the
ordinary
zooids
of the
Bryozoa.
Proliferous
::
Proliferous
(a.)
Producing
sexual
zooids
by
budding;
-- said of the
blastostyle
of a
hydroid.
Gonophore
::
Gonophore
(n.) A
sexual
zooid
produced
as a
medusoid
bud upon a
hydroid,
sometimes
becoming
a free
hydromedusa,
sometimes
remaining
attached.
See
Hydroidea,
and
Illusts.
of
Athecata,
Campanularian,
and
Gonosome..
Diphyozooid
::
Diphyozooid
(n.) One of the
free-swimming
sexual
zooids
of
Siphonophora.
Calicle
::
Calicle
(n.) One of the small
cuplike
cavities,
often with
elevated
borders,
covering
the
surface
of most
corals.
Each is
formed
by a
polyp.
(b) One of the
cuplike
structures
inclosing
the
zooids
of
certain
hydroids.
See
Campanularian..
Spermatozooid
::
Spermatozooid
(n.) A
spermatozoid.
Gonozooid
::
Gonozooid
(n.) A
sexual
zooid,
or
medusoid
bud of a
hydroid;
a
gonophore.
See
Hydroidea,
and
Illust.
of
Campanularian..
Polyp
::
Polyp (n.) One of the
feeding
or
nutritive
zooids
of a
hydroid
or
coral.
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..
Isogonism
::
Isogonism
(n.) The
quality
of
having
similar
sexual
zooids
or
gonophores
and
dissimilar
hydrants;
-- said of
certain
hydroids.
Hydranth
::
Hydranth
(n.) One of the
nutritive
zooids
of a
hydroid
colony.
Also
applied
to the
proboscis
or
manubrium
of a
hydroid
medusa.
See
Illust.
of
Hydroidea.
Proliferation
::
Proliferation
(n.) The
production
of
numerous
zooids
by
budding,
especially
when buds arise from other buds in
succession..
Adnate
::
Adnate
(a.)
Growing
with one side
adherent
to a stem; -- a term
applied
to the
lateral
zooids
of
corals
and other
compound
animals.
Tritozooid
::
Tritozooid
(n.) A zooid of the third
generation
in
asexual
reproduction.
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..
Spirant
::
Spiralozooid
(n.) One of the
special
defensive
zooids
of
certain
hydroids.
They have the form of long,
slender
tentacles,
and bear lasso
cells..
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..
Gonocalyx
::
Gonocalyx
(n.) The bell of a
sessile
gonozooid.
Random Fonts
Most Popular
Privacy Policy
GDPR Policy
Terms & Conditions
Contact Us