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Spermatozoid :: Spermatozoid (n.) The male germ cell in animals and plants, the essential element in fertilization; a microscopic animalcule-like particle, usually provided with one or more cilia by which it is capable of active motion. In animals, the familiar type is that of a small, more or less ovoid head, with a delicate threadlike cilium, or tail. Called also spermatozoon. In plants the more usual term is antherozoid..

Epozoan :: Epozoan (n.) An epizoon.

Spermatozoon :: Spermatozoon (n.) Same as Spermatozoid.

Calzoons :: Calzoons (n. pl.) Drawers.

Polyspermy :: Polyspermy (n.) Fullness of sperm, or seed; the passage of more than one spermatozoon into the vitellus in the impregnation of the ovum..

Haematozoon :: Haematozoon (n.) A parasite inhabiting the bloo.

Teleozoon :: Teleozoon (n.) A metazoan.

Epizootic :: Epizootic (a.) Of or pertaining to an epizoon.

Protozoon :: Protozoon (n.) A single zooid of a compound protozoan.

Epizoon :: Epizoon (n.) One of the artificial group of invertebrates of various kinds, which live parasitically upon the exterior of other animals; an ectozoon. Among them are the lice, ticks, many acari, the lerneans, or fish lice, and other crustaceans..

Eozoic :: Eozoic (a.) Of or pertaining to rocks or strata older than the Paleozoic, in many of which the eozoon has been found..

Polyzoon :: Polyzoon (n.) One of the individual zooids forming the compound organism of a polyzoan.

Zoon :: Zoon (n.) An animal which is the sole product of a single egg; -- opposed to zooid.

Haematozoon :: Haematozoon (n.) The trematode, Bilharzia haematobia, which infests the inhabitants of Egypt and other parts of Africa, often causing death..

Haematozoon :: Haematozoon (n.) Certain species of nematodes of the genus Filaria, sometimes found in the blood of man, the horse, the dog, etc..

Zoonic :: Zoonic (a.) Of or pertaining to animals; obtained from animal substances.

Endoparasite :: Endoparasite (n.) Any parasite which lives in the internal organs of an animal, as the tapeworms, Trichina, etc.; -- opposed to ectoparasite. See Entozoon..

Protozoon :: Protozoon (n.) One of the Protozoa.

Acephalocyst :: Acephalocyst (n.) A larval entozoon in the form of a subglobular or oval vesicle, or hydatid, filled with fluid, sometimes found in the tissues of man and the lower animals; -- so called from the absence of a head or visible organs on the vesicle. These cysts are the immature stages of certain tapeworms. Also applied to similar cysts of different origin..

Zoonite :: Zoonite (n.) One of the theoretic transverse divisions of any segmented animal.

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