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noun
One of the secondary, and usually sexual, zooids produced by budding or fission from the primary zooids, in animals having alternate generations.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: biology, natural-sciences
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
From deutero- + zooid.
