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Webster 1913 Edition


Zooid

Zo′oid

,
Adj.
[
Zo
o- +
-oid
.]
(Biol.)
Pertaining to, or resembling, an animal.

Zo′oid

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Noun.
1.
(Biol.)
An organic body or cell having locomotion, as a spermatic cell or spermatozooid.
2.
(Zool.)
(a)
An animal in one of its inferior stages of development, as one of the intermediate forms in alternate generation.
(b)
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.

Definition 2024


zooid

zooid

See also: zoöid

English

Alternative forms

Noun

zooid (plural zooids)

  1. (biology) An organic body or cell having locomotion, as a spermatic cell or spermatozoid.
  2. (zoology) An animal in one of its inferior or early stages of development, as one of the intermediate forms in alternate generation.
  3. (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.

Derived terms

Adjective

zooid (comparative more zooid, superlative most zooid)

  1. (biology) Relating to, or resembling, an animal.