Found 2 items, similar to Zooid.
English → English (WordNet) Definition: zooid zooid n : one of the distinct individuals forming a colonial animal such as a bryozoan or hydrozoan
English → English (gcide) Definition: Zooid Zooid \Zo"oid\, a. [Zo["o]- + -oid.] (Biol.) Pertaining to, or resembling, an animal. [1913 Webster] Zooid \Zo"oid\, n. 1. (Biol.) An organic body or cell having locomotion, as a spermatic cell or spermatozooid. [1913 Webster] 2. (Zo["o]l.) (a) An animal in one of its inferior stages of development, as one of the intermediate forms in alternate generation. (b) 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. [1913 Webster]