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bryozoa

bryozoa is the plural of bryozoan.

bryozoa is the plural of bryozoon.

bryozoa is the plural of bryozoum.

Meaning of bryozoan

Noun

bryozoan (plural bryozoa or bryozoans)

  1. A member of the phylum Bryozoa of aquatic, usually colonial invertebrates.
    • The blanket of bryozoans also blocks out some of the light needed by the blade for photosynthesis.1991, Martha Holmes, Sea Trek, BBC Books, page 79

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Meaning of bryozoon

Noun

bryozoon (plural bryozoa)

  1. A polyzoon; a tiny animal that forms compound colonies.

Questions about bryozoa

What is bryozoa the plural of?
Bryozoa is the plural of bryozoan.

Words near bryozoa in the dictionary

  1. bryostatins
  2. bryotechnology
  3. bryotoxin
  4. bryotoxins
  5. bryozan
  6. bryozoa
  7. bryozoan
  8. bryozoans
  9. bryozoological
  10. bryozoologist
  11. bryozoologists

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bryozoa (page history and authors); bryozoan (page history and authors); bryozoon (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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