Word Meanings - GONOSOME - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The reproductive zooids of a hydroid colony, collectively.

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• COLLECTIVELY
  In a mass, or body; in a collected state; in the aggregate; unitedly.
• COLONY
  A number of animals or plants living or growing together, beyond their usual range. (more info) 1. A company of people transplanted from their mother country to a remote province or country, and remaining subject to the jurisdiction of the parent
• HYDROIDEA
  Note: This order includes the hydras and the free-swimming hydromedusæ, together with a great variety of marine attached hydroids, many of which grow up into large, elegantly branched forms, consisting of a vast number of zooids , united
• HYDROID
  Related to, or resembling, the hydra; of or pertaining to the Hydroidea. -- n.
• REPRODUCTIVE
  Tending, or pertaining, to reproduction; employed in reproduction. Lyell.
• CROWN COLONY
  A colony of the British Empire not having an elective magistracy or a parliament, but governed by a chief magistrate appointed by the Crown, with executive councilors nominated by him and not elected by the people.