Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (1)
1.
one of the distinct individuals forming a colonial animal such as a bryozoan or hydrozoan;
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Zooid \Zo"oid\, a. [Zoo- + -oid.] (Biol.)
Pertaining to, or resembling, an animal.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Zooid \Zo"oid\, n.
1. (Biol.) An organic body or cell having locomotion, as a
spermatic cell or spermatozooid.
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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.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
zooid
n 1: one of the distinct individuals forming a colonial animal
such as a bryozoan or hydrozoan