Zooid : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Zooid	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for Zooid
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
zooid n one of the distinct individuals forming a colonial animal such as a bryozoan or hydrozoan
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Zooid \Zo"oid\, a. [Zo[94]- + -oid.] (Biol.) Pertaining to, or resembling, an animal.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Zooid \Zo"oid\, n. 1. (Biol.) An organic body or cell having locomotion, as a spermatic cell or spermatozooid. 2. (Zo[94]l.) (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.