Definition of zooid
: one of the asexually produced individuals of a compound organism (such as a bryozoan, hydroid, or coral colony)
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The creatures, made up of individual zooids -- small, multicellular organisms -- normally reside in warmer waters, like the tropics, and usually don't travel farther north than the waters off southern California.
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Inside the wall of this gelatinous tube, which can get up to 60 cm, individual zooids are tightly packed together.
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These zooids have an incurrent and excurrent siphon and use cilia to pump water for feeding, respiration and movement.
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In fact, these giants, called pyrosomes, are actually made up of thousands of much smaller creatures called zooids.
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First Known Use of zooid
1851
Medical Dictionary
medical Definition of zooid
: one of the asexually produced individuals of a compound organism (as a coral colony)
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