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Definition of Dactylozooids

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 Dactylozooids 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 only found on the dactylozooids, which exist furthest away from the mouth, towards...
- functions, the gastrozooids processing and digesting the food caught by the dactylozooids which are grouped around them. The gastrozooids are small and plump...
- as digestion (gastrozooids), reproduction (gonozooids) and hunting (dactylozooids). A fourth type of zooid is the pneumatop****. Three of these types...
- 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...
- tentacles. Scattered among these are specialized defensive stinging polyps (dactylozooids) that are long, coiled threads. The gonozoids liberate crawling planula...
- from the central dome. The outer series of 'tentacles,' interpreted as dactylozooids, are all about the same length. On the other hand, the inner series...
- tolerant of siltation. Some of the polyps of Millepora complanata are dactylozooids with hair-like processes and stinging cells that detect the presence...
- feeding polyps, ****ual polyps, and two other types of polyps called dactylozooids and tentaculozooids, which protect the colony. Nematocyte precursors...