zooid

Definition of Zooid in English :

1. zooid

one of the distinct individuals forming a colonial animal such as a bryozoan or hydrozoan

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Zooid

noun

1.

any independent animal body, such as an individual of a coelenterate colony

2.

a motile cell or body, such as a gamete, produced by an organism

noun

1.

a comparatively independent animal organism produced by other than sexual methods, as by fission, gemmation, etc.

2.

any of the individual members of a colonial or compound animal

used esp. of hydroids, corals, or bryozoans

n.

One of the distinct individuals of a colonial invertebrate animal, such as a bryozoan, that arise asexually by budding.