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- noun A
polyzoon ; a tiny animal that forms compound colonies.
Etymologies
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bryo- + zoon
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The young medusa, before it attains its destined condition of maturity, successively resembles, but never becomes, a polygastrian, a rotifer, and a bryozoon. "-- p. 112.
A Theory of Creation: A Review of 'Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation' Francis Bowen 1850
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