zooid
Kelime Anlamı :

1. Hayvan gibi, hayvana benzer.
Tanımlar :
1. an organic cell or organized body that has independent movement within a living organism, especially a motile gamete such as a spermatozoon.
2. an independent animallike organism produced asexually, as by budding or fission.
3. one of the distinct individuals forming a colonial animal such as a bryozoan or hydrozoan.
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
1. pertaining to, or resembling, an animal.
2. an organic body or cell having locomotion, as a spermatic cell or spermatozooid.
3.
4. an animal in one of its inferior stages of development, as one of the intermediate forms in alternate generation.
5. 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.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
1. one of the distinct individuals forming a colonial animal such as a bryozoan or hydrozoan
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