Word Meanings - DIPHYOZOOID - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One of the free-swimming sexual zooids of Siphonophora.

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• SWIMMINGNESS
  Act or state of swimming; suffusion. "A swimmingness in the eye." Congreve.
• SWIMMING
  1. That swims; capable of swimming; adapted to, or used in, swimming; as, a swimming bird; a swimming motion. 2. Suffused with moisture; as, swimming eyes. Swimming bell , a nectocalyx. See Illust. under Siphonophora. -- Swimming crab , any one
• SIPHONOPHORA
  An order of pelagic Hydrozoa including species which form complex free-swimming communities composed of numerous zooids of various kinds, some of which act as floats or as swimming organs, others as feeding or nutritive zooids, and others
• SEXUALLY
  In a sexual manner or relation.
• SIPHONOPHORAN
  Belonging to the Siphonophora. -- n.
• SEXUALITY
  The quality or state of being distinguished by sex. Lindley.
• SWIMMERET
  One of a series of flat, fringed, and usually bilobed, appendages, of which several pairs occur on the abdominal somites of many crustaceans. They are used as fins in swimming.
• SEXUALIST
  One who classifies plants by the sexual method of Linnæus.
• SWIMMER
  A protuberance on the leg of a horse. (more info) 1. One who swims.
• SWIMMINGLY
  In an easy, gliding manner, as if swimming; smoothly; successfully; prosperously.
• SEXUALIZE
  To attribute sex to.
• SEXUAL
  Of or pertaining to sex, or the sexes; distinguishing sex; peculiar to the distinction and office of male or female; relating to the distinctive genital organs of the sexes; proceeding from, or based upon, sex; as, sexual characteristics; sexual
• ASEXUALIZATION
  The act or process of sterilizing an animal or human being, as by vasectomy.
• ASEXUALLY
  In an asexual manner; without sexual agency.
• FREE-SWIMMING
  Swimming in the open sea; -- said of certain marine animals.
• ASEXUAL
  Having no distinct; without sexual action; as, asexual reproduction. See Fission and Gemmation.
• NONSEXUAL
  Having no distinction of sex; sexless; neuter.
• UNSEXUAL
  Not sexual; not proper or peculiar to one of the sexes. De Quincey.
• ESEXUAL
  Sexless; asexual.
• UNISEXUAL
  Having one sex only, as plants which have the male and female flowers on separate individuals, or animals in which the sexes are in separate individuals; dioecious; -- distinguished from bisexual, or hermaphrodite. See Dioecious.