Zooid

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1. Adjective

Pertaining to, or resembling, an animal.

2. Noun

An organic body or cell having locomotion, as a spermatic cell or spermatozooid.

3. Noun

An animal in one of its inferior stages of development, as one of the intermediate forms in alternate generation.

4. Noun

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.

5. Noun

one of the distinct individuals forming a colonial animal such as a bryozoan or hydrozoan
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