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Webster 1913 Edition
Trophosome
Troph′o-some
,Noun.
[Gr. [GREEK] a feeder +
-some
body.] (Zool.)
The nutritive zooids of a hydroid, collectively, as distinguished from the gonosome, or reproductive zooids.
Definition 2024
trophosome
trophosome
English
Noun
trophosome (plural trophosomes)
- (biology) The group of nutritive zooids of a hydrozoan
- (biology) The mass of chemolithoautotrophic bacteria in a pogonophoran that metabolizes sulfide