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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 (n.) An
animal
in one of its
inferior
stages
of
development,
as one of the
intermediate
forms in
alternate
generation..
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Adelocodonic
::
Adelocodonic
(a.)
Applied
to
sexual
zooids
of
hydroids,
that have a
saclike
form and do not
become
free; --
opposed
to
phanerocodonic..
Coenoecium
::
Coenoecium
(n.) The
common
tissue
which
unites
the
various
zooids
of a
bryozoan.
Zoon
::
Zoon (n.) An
animal
which is the sole
product
of a
single
egg; --
opposed
to
zooid.
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..
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..
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..
Polypide
::
Polypide
(n.) One of the
ordinary
zooids
of the
Bryozoa.
Sporophore
::
Sporogony
(n.) The
growth
or
development
of an
animal
or a zooid from a
nonsexual
germ.
Zooid
::
Zooid (n.) 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..
Adnate
::
Adnate
(a.)
Growing
with one side
adherent
to a stem; -- a term
applied
to the
lateral
zooids
of
corals
and other
compound
animals.
Nectocalyx
::
Nectocalyx
(n.) One of the
zooids
of
certain
Siphonophora,
having
somewhat
the form, and the
essential
structure,
of the bell of a
jellyfish,
and
acting
as a
swimming
organ..
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..
Proliferate
::
Proliferate
(v. t.) To
produce
zooids
by
budding.
Athecata
::
Athecata
(n. pl.) A
division
of
Hydroidea
in which the
zooids
are
naked,
or not
inclosed
in a
capsule.
See
Tubularian..
Trophosome
::
Trophosome
(n.) The
nutritive
zooids
of a
hydroid,
collectively,
as
distinguished
from the
gonosome,
or
reproductive
zooids..
Taster
::
Taster
(n.) One of a
peculiar
kind of
zooids
situated
on the
polyp-stem
of
certain
Siphonophora.
They
somewhat
resemble
the
feeding
zooids,
but are
destitute
of
mouths.
See
Siphonophora..
Diphyozooid
::
Diphyozooid
(n.) One of the
free-swimming
sexual
zooids
of
Siphonophora.
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..
Proliferation
::
Proliferation
(n.) The
production
of
numerous
zooids
by
budding,
especially
when buds arise from other buds in
succession..
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