zooid

Meanings

Noun

  • An organic body or cell having locomotion, as a spermatic cell or spermatozoid.
  • An animal in one of its inferior or early stages of development, as one of the intermediate forms in alternate generation.
  • 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.

Adjective

  • Relating to, or resembling, an animal.

Origin

  • From zoo- + -oid.

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