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zooid

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Noun
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zo=oid

CIDE DICTIONARY

zooida. [Zoö- + -oid.].
     Pertaining to, or resembling, an animal.  [1913 Webster]
zooidn. 
  •  An organic body or cell having locomotion, as a spermatic cell or spermatozooid.  [1913 Webster]
  •  An animal in one of its inferior stages of development, as one of the intermediate forms in alternate generation.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

zooid, n.
1 a more or less independent invertebrate organism arising by budding or fission.
2 a distinct member of an invertebrate colony.

Derivative
zooidal adj.
Etymology
formed as ZOO- + -OID

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