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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..

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..

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

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..

Zooid :: Zooid (a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, an animal..

Athecata :: Athecata (n. pl.) A division of Hydroidea in which the zooids are naked, or not inclosed in a capsule. See Tubularian..

Proliferation :: Proliferation (n.) The production of numerous zooids by budding, especially when buds arise from other buds in succession..

Ooecium :: Ooecium (n.) One of the special zooids, or cells, of Bryozoa, destined to receive and develop ova; an ovicell. See Bryozoa..

Simple :: Simple (a.) Consisting of a single individual or zooid; as, a simple ascidian; -- opposed to compound..

Pennatula :: Pennatula (n.) Any one of numerous species of Pennatula, Pteroides, and allied genera of Alcyonaria, having a featherlike form; a sea-pen. The zooids are situated along one edge of the side branches..

Ascidiozooid :: Ascidiozooid (n.) One of the individual members of a compound ascidian. See Ascidioidea.

Adnate :: Adnate (a.) Growing with one side adherent to a stem; -- a term applied to the lateral zooids of corals and other compound animals.

Zoanthodeme :: Zoanthodeme (n.) The zooids of a compound anthozoan, collectively..

Ascidiarium :: Ascidiarium (n.) The structure which unites together the ascidiozooids in a compound ascidian.

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.

Polyp :: Polyp (n.) One of the feeding or nutritive zooids of a hydroid or coral.

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..

Gonozooid :: Gonozooid (n.) A sexual zooid, or medusoid bud of a hydroid; a gonophore. See Hydroidea, and Illust. of Campanularian..

Spermatozooid :: Spermatozooid (n.) A spermatozoid.

Proliferate :: Proliferate (v. t.) To produce zooids by budding.

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