zooid

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: zo=oid

CIDE DICTIONARY

zooid, a. [Zoö- + -oid.].

 Pertaining to, or resembling, an animal.  [1913 Webster]

zooid, n. 

•  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