ZOOID
\zˈuːɪd], \zˈuːɪd], \z_ˈuː_ɪ_d]\
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An organic body or cell having locomotion, as a spermatic cell or spermatozooid.
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An animal in one of its inferior stages of development, as one of the intermediate forms in alternate generation.
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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.
By Oddity Software
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An organic body or cell having locomotion, as a spermatic cell or spermatozooid.
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An animal in one of its inferior stages of development, as one of the intermediate forms in alternate generation.
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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.
By Noah Webster.
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A member of a compound animal organism; an individual or person in a coelenterate or polyzoan colony; the posterior genital and non-sexual region formed in many Polychaetes.
By Henderson, I. F.; Henderson, W. D.
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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1. Like an animal; of the nature of an animal.
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As a n., an organism resembling an animal, especially one of the more or less completely independent organisms produced by gemmation or fission, Whether remaining attached to one another or detached and set free.
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As a n., of Brticke, the nucleus and coloring matter of a red blood corpuscle. [Gr., zoon, an animal, + eidos, resemblance.]
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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