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n. - One of the distinct individuals forming a colonial animal such as a bryozoan or hydrozoan.

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  • I'm not a biologist, but I do read that a zooid is a single cell that can move independently within a larger organism.
  • It is not easy to imagine two objects more widely different in appearance than a bristle or vibraculum, and an avicularium like the head of a bird; yet they are almost...
  • Mr. Busk, however, does not know of any gradations now existing between a zooid and an avicularium.
  • Such zooids are specialised to such an extent that they lack the structures associated with other functions and are therefore dependent for survival on the others to do what...
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