Definition of Dactylozooid. Meaning of Dactylozooid. Synonyms of Dactylozooid

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Definition of Dactylozooid

Dactylozooid
Dactylozooid Dac`tyl*o*zo"oid, n. [Gr. da`ktylos finger + E. zooid.] (Zo["o]l.) A kind of zooid of Siphonophora which has an elongated or even vermiform body, with one tentacle, but no mouth. See Siphonophora.

Meaning of Dactylozooid from wikipedia

- nutrients to the rest of the colony. Other zooids known as palpons, or dactylozooids, appear to contain an excretory system that may also ****ist in defense...
- mouth is surrounded by a ring of gonozooids and dactylozooids. Tentacles are found only on the dactylozooids, which exist furthest away from the mouth, towards...
- as digestion (gastrozooids), reproduction (gonozooids) and hunting (dactylozooids). A fourth type of zooid is the pneumatop****. Three of these types...
- functions, the gastrozooids processing and digesting the food caught by the dactylozooids which are grouped around them. The gastrozooids are small and plump...
- between reproduction (gonozooids), feeding (gastrozooids) and defense (dactylozooid). Even though they are genetically identical, there is a distinct morphological...
- and reproductive, called gonozooids, and others protective, called dactylozooids. The gonozooids each produce numerous tiny jellyfish by an a****ual budding...
- gastropores and dactylopores. In fact, Millepora means ‘thousand pores’. Dactylozooids have long fine hairs that protrude from the skeleton. The hairs possess...
- reproductive polyp. Third, being the dactylozooid which function works in defense for the colony. The dactylozooid recently had become more highly variable...
- tolerant of siltation. Some of the polyps of Millepora complanata are dactylozooids with hair-like processes and stinging cells that detect the presence...
- tentacles. Scattered among these are specialized defensive stinging polyps (dactylozooids) that are long, coiled threads. The gonozoids liberate crawling planula...