Words Like ZOOID
We have put together a list of words that are similar to ZOOID.
2 Alternative Words Similar to zooid
6 definitions of zooid
1
Like an animal; of the nature of animals; having an animal character, form, aspect, or mode of existence, as an organism endowed with life and motion. See II.
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In biology, something like an animal; that which is of the nature of an animal, yet is not an animal in an ordinary sense, and is not the whole of an animal in a strict sense; one of the “persons” or recognizably distinct entities which compose a zoön; that product of any organism, whether of animal, vegetable, or equivocal character, which is capable of spontaneous movements, and hence may have an existence more or less apart from or independent of the parent organism.
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An organic body or cell having locomotion, as a spermatic cell or spermatozoid.
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An animal in one of its inferior or early 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.
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one of the distinct individuals forming a colonial animal such as a bryozoan or hydrozoan