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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 ZOOiD from wikipedia
- A
zooid or
zoöid /ˈzoʊ.ɔɪd/ is a
single animal that is part of a
colonial animal. This
lifestyle has been
adopted by
animals from
separate unrelated taxa...
- for a
Pound is an
album composed by
Henry Threadgill for his jazz
quintet Zooid,
featuring Jose Davila,
Liberty Ellman,
Christopher Hoffman, and Elliot...
-
graptolites and
Rhabdopleura share a
colony structure of
interconnected zooids housed in
organic tubes (theca)
which have a
basic structure of stacked...
- twenty-piece
Society Situation Dance Band, Very Very Circus, X-75, and
Zooid. He was
awarded the 2016
Pulitzer Prize for
Music for his
album In for a...
-
organism composed of
medusoid and
polypoid zooids that are
morphologically and
functionally specialized.
Zooids are
multicellular units that
develop from...
- some
colonies can
creep very
slowly by
using spiny defensive zooids as legs. Each
zooid consists of a "cystid",
which provides the body wall and produces...
- sea". Each
zooid is a few
millimetres in size, but is
embedded in a
common gelatinous tunic that
joins all of the individuals. Each
zooid opens both to...
- currents. It
lives in
colonies of one to four
transparent individuals or
zooids measuring up to 2
centimetres (0.79 in) each.
Individuals in a
colony are...
-
others replicate by
budding and
become colonies, each unit
being known as a
zooid. They are
marine filter feeders with a water-filled, sac-like body structure...
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suborder under class Cheilostomida defined by the lack of an
ascus in each
zooid. It is no
longer an
accepted taxonomic grouping as it is
considered a polyphyletic...
