zooid
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (British) IPA: /ˈzəʊɔɪd/, /ˈzuːɔɪd/
zooid (plural zooids)
- (biology) An organic body or cell having locomotion, as a spermatic cell or spermatozoid.
- (zoology) An animal in one of its inferior or early stages of development, as one of the intermediate forms in alternate generation.
- (zoology) One of the individual animals in a composite group, as of Anthozoa, Hydrozoa, and Bryozoa; — sometimes restricted to those individuals in which the mouth and digestive organs are not developed.
zooid
- (biology) Relating to, or resembling, an animal.
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