Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Filled with imaginary animals and other beings, as primitive religious conceptions; zoölatrous.
  • Having the characters of the Polyzoa; existing in the form of a colony composed of a number of zoöids.
  • In Sporozoa, designating a spore that produces many falciform bodies. Contrasted with monozoic, dizoic, etc.
  • In cestodes, having the body consisting of metamerically arranged regions each containing a set of generative organs, as in Tænia. Compare monozoic.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective zoology Pertaining to polyzoa.
  • adjective biology Consisting of a colony of zooids or similar organisms
  • noun zoology A spore that produces lots of sporozoites.

Etymologies

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From polyzoa + -ic.

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