zooid
/ˈzəʊɔɪd/
构词拆解
- zoo-
- animal
- -oid
- Resembling; having the likeness of (usually including the concept of not being the same despite the likeness, but counterexamples exist). · (less commonly) Of, pertaining to, or related to.
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释义
名词noun
- 1(biology) An organic body or cell having locomotion, as a spermatic cell or spermatozoid.
- 2(zoology) An animal in one of its inferior or early stages of development, as one of the intermediate forms in alternate generation.
- 3(zoology) One of the individual animals in a composite group, as of