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zooids

zooids is the plural of zooid.

Meaning of zooid

Noun

zooid (plural zooids)

  1. An organic body or cell having locomotion, as a spermatic cell or spermatozoid.
  2. An animal in one of its inferior or early stages of development, as one of the intermediate forms in alternate generation.
  3. One of the individual animals in a composite group, as of Anthozoa, Hydrozoa, and Bryozoa; — sometimes restricted to those individuals in which the mouth and digestive organs are not developed.

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Questions about zooids

What is zooids the plural of?
Zooids is the plural of zooid.

Words near zooids in the dictionary

  1. zooid
  2. zooidal
  3. zooidiogamous
  4. zooidiophilous
  5. zooidogamous
  6. zooids
  7. zooier
  8. zooiest
  9. zooish
  10. zook
  11. zooked

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