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===Etymology===
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===Pronunciation===
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===Noun===
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Etymology

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Pronunciation

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Noun

zooid (plural zooids)

  1. Template:biology An organic body or cell having locomotion, as a spermatic cell or spermatozoid.
  2. Template:zoology An animal in one of its inferior or early stages of development, as one of the intermediate forms in alternate generation.
  3. Template:zoology One of the individual animals in a composite group, as of Anthozoa, Hydroidea, and Bryozoa; — sometimes restricted to those individuals in which the mouth and digestive organs are not developed.