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Definition of zooid
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Zooid (n.) An
organic
body or cell
having
locomotion,
as a
spermatic
cell or
spermatozooid..
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Polypite
::
Polypite
(n.) One of the
feeding
zooids,
or
polyps,
of a
coral,
hydroid,
or
siphonophore;
a
hydranth.
See
Illust.
of
Campanularian..
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..
Simple
::
Simple
(a.)
Consisting
of a
single
individual
or
zooid;
as, a
simple
ascidian;
--
opposed
to
compound..
Dactylozooid
::
Dactylozooid
(n.) A kind of zooid of
Siphonophora
which has an
elongated
or even
vermiform
body, with one
tentacle,
but no
mouth.
See
Siphonophora..
Coenenchyma
::
Coenenchyma
(n.) The
common
tissue
which
unites
the
polyps
or
zooids
of a
compound
anthozoan
or
coral.
It may be soft or more or less
ossified.
See
Coral.
Vibraculum
::
Vibraculum
(n.) One of the
movable,
slender,
spinelike
organs
or parts with which
certain
bryozoans
are
furnished.
They are
regarded
as
specially
modified
zooids,
of
nearly
the same
nature
as
Avicularia..
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..
Adelocodonic
::
Adelocodonic
(a.)
Applied
to
sexual
zooids
of
hydroids,
that have a
saclike
form and do not
become
free; --
opposed
to
phanerocodonic..
Ascidiozooid
::
Ascidiozooid
(n.) One of the
individual
members
of a
compound
ascidian.
See
Ascidioidea.
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..
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..
Zooecium
::
Zooecium
(n.) One of the cells or tubes which
inclose
the
feeling
zooids
of
Bryozoa.
See
Illust.
of Sea Moss.
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..
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..
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..
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..
Athecata
::
Athecata
(n. pl.) A
division
of
Hydroidea
in which the
zooids
are
naked,
or not
inclosed
in a
capsule.
See
Tubularian..
Sporophore
::
Sporogony
(n.) The
growth
or
development
of an
animal
or a zooid from a
nonsexual
germ.
Campanularian
::
Campanularian
(n.) A
hydroid
of the
family
ampanularidae,
characterized
by
having
the
polyps
or
zooids
inclosed
in
bell-shaped
calicles
or
hydrothecae..
Zooid
::
Zooid (a.)
Pertaining
to, or
resembling,
an
animal..
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