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- noun Plural form of
zooid .
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Examples
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In budding, the buds (zooids), differentiate along the length of the "parents body", forming chains until fission separates them into new individuals.
Platyhelminthes 2007
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The individuality of the species is represented by the whole of the form produced between two sexual reproductions; and these forms, which are apparently individual animals, have been called zooids.
Glossary of the Principal Scientific Terms Used in the Present Volume 1909
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The avicularia, like the vibracula, probably serve for defence, but they also catch and kill small living animals, which it is believed are afterwards swept by the currents within reach of the tentacula of the zooids.
VII. Miscellaneous Objections to the Theory of Natural Selection 1909
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The avicularia are believed by Mr. Busk, Dr. Smitt, and Dr. Nitschenaturalists who have carefully studied this groupto be homologous with the zooids and their cells which compose the zoöphyte; the moveable lip or lid of the cell corresponding with the lower and moveable mandible of the avicularium.
VII. Miscellaneous Objections to the Theory of Natural Selection 1909
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The individuality of the species is represented by the whole of the form produced between two sexual reproductions; and these forms, which are apparently individual animals, have been called zooids.
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Instead of dogs and bunnies, he makes gigantic, science-inspired sculptures of jellyfish, neurons, and zooids.
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To do so, the zooids utilize specialized feeding structures known as lophophores that are ciliated and can be extended or retracted as needed.
unknown title 2009
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To do so, the zooids utilize specialized feeding structures known as lophophores that are ciliated and can be extended or retracted as needed.
unknown title 2009
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Such zooids are specialised to such an extent that they lack the structures associated with other functions and are therefore dependent for survival on the others to do what the particular zooid cannot do by itself.
Pounding The Rock 2009
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He believes the animal was a pyrosome, which is made up of hundreds to thousands of individual organisms, known as zooids.
Strange sea creature stuns NZ divers NWWHIGHAM 2018
avivamagnolia commented on the word zooids
~ Living things that have (or can develop) the ability to act or function independently
~ Distinct individuals forming a colonial animal such as a bryozoan or hydrozoan
January 19, 2009