Definitions for zooids
zooids
zo·oid
Spelling: [zoh-oid]
IPA: /ˈzoʊ ɔɪd/
Zooids is a 6 letter English word.
It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points.
It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.
You can make 49 anagrams from letters in zooids (dioosz).
Definitions for zooids
noun
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any organic body or cell capable of spontaneous movement and of an existence more or less apart from or independent of the parent organism.
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any animal organism or individual capable of separate existence, and produced by fission, gemmation, or some method other than direct sexual reproduction.
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any one of the recognizably distinct individuals or elements of a compound or colonial animallike organism, whether or not detached or detachable.
adjective
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Also, zooidal. pertaining to, resembling, or of the nature of an animal.
Origin of zooids
First recorded in 1850-55; zo- + -oid
Examples for zooids
The asexual stock, after budding off one asexual zooid, elongates again and buds off a second zooid.
Mr. Busk, however, does not know of any gradations now existing between a zooid and an avicularium.
From this bud is developed the first zooid and first serial theca of the colony.
A, Schematic longitudinal section through a zooid and bud of Stylophora digitata.