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n. - Marine or freshwater animals that form colonies of entities that resemble but are not wholly the same as a separate individual organism.

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  • It looks likely to contain some fresh-water polyzoa, than which there are few more beautiful tenants of the water.
  • You will often find other forms of polyzoa in clear ponds and mill-pools; sometimes you would suppose you were looking at a mass of sponge, as in the case of
  • Mollusca, rotifers, polyzoa, and such infusoria as are not included in types (1) and (2) belong to the massive type, in which the body and its parts form rounded masses.
  • Big-mouthed fish, worms, spiders, anemones, sea-cucumbers, polyzoa, prawns, little fish like sardines, one spiky fish like nothing on earth, starfish and octopus,...
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