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zooid

/zoh-oid/US // ˈzoʊ ɔɪd //UK // (ˈzəʊɔɪd) //

动物学,动物园

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : any organic body or cell capable of spontaneous movement and of an existence more or less apart from or independent of the parent organism.
    • : any animal organism or individual capable of separate existence, and produced by fission, gemmation, or some method other than direct sexual reproduction.
    • : any one of the recognizably distinct individuals or elements of a compound or colonial animallike organism, whether or not detached or detachable.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : Also zo·oi·dal. pertaining to, resembling, or of the nature of an animal.

Examples

  • The asexual stock, after budding off one asexual zooid, elongates again and buds off a second zooid.

  • The anterior asexual zooid continues to produce fresh sexual zooids by fission.

  • In Autolytus there is, to begin with, a conversion of the posterior half of the body to form a sexual zooid.

  • Mr. Busk, however, does not know of any gradations now existing between a zooid and an avicularium.

  • The posterior part forms a rudimentary zooid, called by Huxley Cyathozooid, which eventually atrophies.

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