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Meaning of 'zooid' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Zooid [ a.]
- Pertaining to, or resembling, an animal.
2 . Zooid [ n.]
- An organic body or cell having locomotion, as a spermatic cell or spermatozooid.
- An animal in one of its inferior stages of development, as one of the intermediate forms in alternate generation.
- 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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