zooid
(noun) one of the distinct individuals forming a colonial animal such as a bryozoan or hydrozoan
Source: WordNet® 3.1
zooid (plural zooids)
(biology) An organic body or cell having locomotion, as a spermatic cell or spermatozoid.
(zoology) An animal in one of its inferior or early stages of development, as one of the intermediate forms in alternate generation.
(zoology) One of the individual animals in a composite group, as of Anthozoa, Hydrozoa, and Bryozoa; — sometimes restricted to those individuals in which the mouth and digestive organs are not developed.
zooid (comparative more zooid, superlative most zooid)
(biology) Relating to, or resembling, an animal.
Source: Wiktionary
Zo"oid, a. Etym: [Zoö- + -oid.] (Biol.)
Definition: Pertaining to, or resembling, an animal.
Zo"oid, n.
1. (Biol.)
Definition: An organic body or cell having locomotion, as a spermatic cell or spermatozooid.
2. (Zoöl.) (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.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
22 December 2024
(noun) (plural) spectacles that are darkened or polarized to protect the eyes from the glare of the sun; “he was wearing a pair of mirrored shades”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
