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Definitions for Zooid

[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.
[2] any animal organism or individual capable of separate existence, and produced by fission, gemmation, or some method other than direct sexual reproduction.
[3] any one of the recognizably distinct individuals or elements of a compound or colonial animallike organism, whether or not detached or detachable.
[4] Also zo·oi·dal. pertaining to, resembling, or of the nature of an animal.
[5] any independent animal body, such as an individual of a coelenterate colony
[6] a motile cell or body, such as a gamete, produced by an organism

Words nearby Zooid

zooglea, zoogloea, zoograft, zoografting, zoography, zooid, zookeeper, zooks, zool., zoolagnia, zoolatry

Origin of Zooid

First recorded in 1850–55; zo- + -oid