Definition of Zooids. Meaning of Zooids. Synonyms of Zooids

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Definition of Zooids

Zooid
Zooid o"oid, a. [Zo["o]- + -oid.] (Biol.) Pertaining to, or resembling, an animal.
Zooid
Zooid o"oid, n. 1. (Biol.) An organic body or cell having locomotion, as a spermatic cell or spermatozooid. 2. (Zo["o]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.

Meaning of Zooids from wikipedia

- structures that the zooids formed during life. There are correlations between the size of some zooids and temperature. Variations in zooid size within colonies...
- organism composed of medusoid and polypoid zooids that are morphologically and functionally specialized. Zooids are multicellular units that develop from...
- colonies consisting of clones called zooids that are typically about 0.5 mm (1⁄64 in) long. Phoronids resemble bryozoan zooids but are 2 to 20 cm (1 to 8 in)...
- made up of many smaller units called zooids. Although they are morphologically quite different, all of the zooids in a single specimen are genetically...
- are colonial, and their members are known as "zooids", since they are not fully independent animals. Zooids are typically 1 millimetre (0.039 in) long but...
- there is no common canal connecting all zooids. Cephalodiscida zooids have several arms, while Graptolithina zooids have only one pair of arms. Other differences...
- siphonop****, a jelly-like marine animal, is composed of organism-like zooids, but the whole structure looks and functions much like an animal such as...
- include both ****ual and a****ual zooids in three sequential "generations". The nurse produces buds (which grow into new zooids) in its ventral stalk, but the...
- colony of tiny biological components called zooids, each having evolved with a specific function. Zooids cannot survive on their own, relying on symbiosis...
- within a multicellular colonial organism may be called ramets, modules, or zooids. Structural and functional variation (polymorphism), when present, designates...