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 . Comparemonozoic .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective zoology Pertaining to
polyzoa . - adjective biology Consisting of a
colony ofzooids or similar organisms - noun zoology A
spore that produces lots ofsporozoites .
Etymologies
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From polyzoa + -ic.
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