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adj
Relating to, or resembling, an animal.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: biology, natural-sciences
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noun
An organic body or cell having locomotion, as a spermatic cell or spermatozoid.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: biology, natural-sciences
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noun
An animal in one of its inferior or early stages of development, as one of the intermediate forms in alternate generation.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: biology, natural-sciences, zoology
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noun
One of the individual animals in a composite group, as of Anthozoa, Hydrozoa, and Bryozoa; — sometimes restricted to those individuals in which the mouth and digestive organs are not developed.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: biology, natural-sciences, zoology
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noun
one of the distinct individuals forming a colonial animal such as a bryozoan or hydrozoan
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: organism, being
History
From zoo- + -oid. Compare Ancient Greek ζῴδιον (zōídion, “animal”).
