ZOOID

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does zooid mean? 

• ZOOID (noun)
  The noun ZOOID has 1 sense:

1. one of the distinct individuals forming a colonial animal such as a bryozoan or hydrozoan

  Familiarity information: ZOOID used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ZOOID (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

One of the distinct individuals forming a colonial animal such as a bryozoan or hydrozoan

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("zooid" is a kind of...):

being; organism (a living thing that has (or can develop) the ability to act or function independently)