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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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Proliferation
::
Proliferation
(n.) The
production
of
numerous
zooids
by
budding,
especially
when buds arise from other buds in
succession..
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..
Adnate
::
Adnate
(a.)
Growing
with one side
adherent
to a stem; -- a term
applied
to the
lateral
zooids
of
corals
and other
compound
animals.
Hydrophyllium
::
Hydrophyllium
(n.) One of the flat,
leaflike,
protective
zooids,
covering
other
zooids
of
certain
Siphonophora..
Diphyozooid
::
Diphyozooid
(n.) One of the
free-swimming
sexual
zooids
of
Siphonophora.
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..
Proliferate
::
Proliferate
(v. t.) To
produce
zooids
by
budding.
Zooid
::
Zooid (n.) An
organic
body or cell
having
locomotion,
as a
spermatic
cell or
spermatozooid..
Athecata
::
Athecata
(n. pl.) A
division
of
Hydroidea
in which the
zooids
are
naked,
or not
inclosed
in a
capsule.
See
Tubularian..
Polyp
::
Polyp (n.) One of the
feeding
or
nutritive
zooids
of a
hydroid
or
coral.
Protozoon
::
Protozoon
(n.) A
single
zooid of a
compound
protozoan.
Simple
::
Simple
(a.)
Consisting
of a
single
individual
or
zooid;
as, a
simple
ascidian;
--
opposed
to
compound..
Zooecium
::
Zooecium
(n.) One of the cells or tubes which
inclose
the
feeling
zooids
of
Bryozoa.
See
Illust.
of Sea Moss.
Spirant
::
Spiralozooid
(n.) One of the
special
defensive
zooids
of
certain
hydroids.
They have the form of long,
slender
tentacles,
and bear lasso
cells..
Adelocodonic
::
Adelocodonic
(a.)
Applied
to
sexual
zooids
of
hydroids,
that have a
saclike
form and do not
become
free; --
opposed
to
phanerocodonic..
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..
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..
Gonocalyx
::
Gonocalyx
(n.) The bell of a
sessile
gonozooid.
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..
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