Word Meanings - ZOOIDAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of or pertaining to a zooid; as, a zooidal form.

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• PERTAIN
  stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
• ZOOID
  Pertaining to, or resembling, an animal.
• ZOOIDAL
  Of or pertaining to a zooid; as, a zooidal form.
• SPERMATOZOOID
  A spermatozoid.
• TRITOZOOID
  A zooid of the third generation in asexual reproduction.
• DACTYLOZOOID
  A kind of zooid of Siphonophora which has an elongated or even vermiform body, with one tentacle, but no mouth. See Siphonophora.
• DEUTEROZOOID
  One of the secondary, and usually sexual, zooids produced by budding or fission from the primary zooids, in animals having alternate generations. In the tapeworms, the joints are deuterozooids.
• ANTHEROZOID; ANTHEROZOOID
  One of the mobile male reproductive bodies in the antheridia of cryptogams.
• SPIRALOZOOID
  One of the special defensive zooids of certain hydroids. They have the form of long, slender tentacles, and bear lasso cells.
• DIPHYOZOOID
  One of the free-swimming sexual zooids of Siphonophora.
• ASCIDIOZOOID
  One of the individual members of a compound ascidian. See Ascidioidea.
• GONOZOOID
  A sexual zooid, or medusoid bud of a hydroid; a gonophore. See Hydroidea, and Illust. of Campanularian.
• APPERTAIN
  To belong or pertain, whether by right, nature, appointment, or custom; to relate. Things appertaining to this life. Hooker. Give it unto him to whom it appertaineth. Lev. vi. 5. (more info) appartenir, fr. L. appertinere; ad + pertinere to reach