From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Zooid \Zo"oid\, adjective [Zo["o]- + -oid.] (Biol.) Pertaining to, or resembling, an animal.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
1. (Biol.) An organic body or cell having locomotion, as a spermatic cell or spermatozooid.
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.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
noun
1: one of the distinct individuals forming a colonial animal such as a bryozoan or hydrozoan
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