Usually means: Individual animals in colonial organisms.
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General (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. zooids: Merriam-Webster
  2. zooids: Collins English Dictionary
  3. zooids: Vocabulary.com
  4. zooids: Wiktionary
  5. zooids: Dictionary.com
  6. Zooids: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  7. zooids: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. zooids: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. zooids: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. zooids: Medical dictionary

(Note: See zooid as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (zooid)

noun:  (biology) An organic body or cell having locomotion, as a spermatic cell or spermatozoid.
noun:  (zoology) An animal in one of its inferior or early stages of development, as one of the intermediate forms in alternate generation.
noun:  (zoology) One 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.
adjective:  (biology) Relating to, or resembling, an animal.
▸ Also see zooid


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