noun🔗ShareAn organic body or cell having locomotion, as a spermatic cell or spermatozoid."Under a microscope, the scientist observed the individual zooids moving freely, each contributing to the overall movement of the larger colonial organism. "organismbiologyanatomyphysiologyChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗ShareAn animal in one of its inferior or early stages of development, as one of the intermediate forms in alternate generation."The coral colony is composed of many tiny individual zooids, each playing a small role in the overall structure. "animalbiologyorganismChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗ShareOne of the individual animals in a composite group, as of Anthozoa, Hydrozoa, and Bryozoa; — sometimes restricted to those individuals in which the mouth and digestive organs are not developed."The coral colony is made up of many tiny individual animals called zooids, each contributing to the colony's overall structure and function. "animalbiologyorganismgroupanatomyChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading