'Zooid' definitions:
Definition of 'zooid'
(from WordNet)
noun
One of the distinct individuals forming a colonial animal such as a bryozoan or hydrozoan
Definition of 'Zooid'
From: GCIDE
- Zooid \Zo"oid\, a. [Zoo- + -oid.] (Biol.) Pertaining to, or resembling, an animal. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Zooid'
From: GCIDE
- Zooid \Zo"oid\, n.
- 1. (Biol.) An organic body or cell having locomotion, as a spermatic cell or spermatozooid. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Zool.) (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. [1913 Webster]