Definitions for zooid
ˈzoʊ ɔɪdzooid

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. zooidnoun

   one of the distinct individuals forming a colonial animal such as a bryozoan or hydrozoan

WiktionaryRate this definition:1.0 / 1 vote

1. zooidnoun

   An organic body or cell having locomotion, as a spermatic cell or spermatozoid.

2. zooidnoun

   An animal in one of its inferior or early stages of development, as one of the intermediate forms in alternate generation.

3. zooidnoun

   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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1. Zooid

   A zooid or zoöid is a single animal that is part of a colonial animal. This lifestyle has been adopted by animals from separate unrelated taxa. Zooids are multicellular; their structure is similar to that of other solitary animals. The zooids can either be directly connected by tissue (e.g. corals, Catenulida, Siphonophorae, Pyrosome or Ectoprocta) or share a common exoskeleton (e.g. Bryozoa or Pterobranchia). The colonial organism as a whole is called a zoon , plural zoa (from Ancient Greek zôion ζῷον meaning animal; plural zôia, ζῷα). Zooids can exhibit polymorphism. For instance, extant bryozoans may have zooids adapted for different functions, such as feeding, anchoring the colony to the substratum and for brooding embryos. However, fossil bryozoans are only known by the colony structures that the zooids formed during life.There are correlations between the size of some zooids and temperature. Variations in zooid size within colonies of fossils can be used as an indicator of the temperature and the seasonality of seas in the geological past.The term zooid has historically also been used for an organic cell or organized body that has independent movement within a living organism, especially a motile gamete such as a spermatozoon (in the case of algae now zoid), or an independent animal-like organism produced asexually, as by budding or fission.

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1. zooid

   A zooid is an individual animal that is part of a colonial organism, such as a coral or a jellyfish. Each zooid is capable of independent movement and function, but they are typically interconnected or attached to other zooids, forming a larger organism with shared resources or functions.

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1. Zooidadjective

   pertaining to, or resembling, an animal

2. Zooidnoun

   an organic body or cell having locomotion, as a spermatic cell or spermatozooid

3. Zooidnoun

   an animal in one of its inferior stages of development, as one of the intermediate forms in alternate generation

4. Zooidnoun

   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

5. Etymology: [Zoo- + -oid.]

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Zooid

   zō′oid, adj. having the nature of an animal, having organic life and motion.—n. a term applied to each of the individuals which make up a compound organism. [Gr. zōon, an animal, eidos, form.]

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of zooid in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of zooid in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=zooid
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Zooid
3. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zooid
4. ^ ChatGPT
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5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/zooid
6. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=zooid