Definition of Zooecia. Meaning of Zooecia. Synonyms of Zooecia

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Definition of Zooecia

Zooecia
Zooecium o*[oe]"ci*um, n.; pl. Zo[oe]cia. [NL., fr. Gr. zw^,on an animal + ? house.] (Zo["o]l.) One of the cells or tubes which inclose the feeling zooids of Bryozoa. See Illust. of Sea Moss.

Meaning of Zooecia from wikipedia

- disc shaped, with 3 or 4 radiating lobes, being 2–5 cm in diameter. The zooecia are shaped as wide prisms. Representatives of this genus have been found...
- m****ive dome-shaped trepostomes. Trepostomes did not have many specialized zooecia beyond ordinary feeding autozooecia. The two main known heteromorphs are...
- by transverse septa, situated between the characteristically elongated zooecia of each individual colony. Acanthoceramoporellidae (Ordovician) Actinotrypidae...
- groups of three or four larger zooecia slightly protruding out from the main surface of the colony. In cross section, the zooecia (tubes housing individual...
- had very abundant mesopores; in the case of the species P. insularis its zooecia (individual tubes housing the zooids) were isolated from each other by...
- colonies were solid, and its autozooecia derived from distinctive axial zooecia. "Cystomeson". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 16 March...
- hemispherical shapes, with flat undersides and rounded tops. In cross-section, the zooecia (tubes housing individual zooids) fan out from the initial growth area...
- turbinate, horn-shaped, conical, or m****ive and hemispherical. Individual zooecia take the form of long, thin-walled polygonal tubes. It lacks styles (acanthopores)...