Noah Webster Dictionary (1913 edition): Zooid

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Noah Webster Dictionary (1913 edition): Zooid


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(1):

(n.) An organic body or cell having locomotion, as a spermatic cell or spermatozooid.

(2):

(n.) An animal in one of its inferior stages of development, as one of the intermediate forms in alternate generation.

(3):

(n.) 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.

(4):

(a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, an animal.