"Tritozooid" is a word in ENGLISH
A zooid of the third generation in asexual
reproduction.
[Tolstoy] does not necessarily get rid of [his angry] temperament by undergoing religious conversion, and indeed it is obvious that the illusion of having been reborn may allow one's native vices to flourish more freely than ever, though perhaps in subtler forms.
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Applied to sexual zooids of hydroids, that have a saclike form and do not become free; -- opposed to phanerocodonic.
Read the complete definitionGrowing with one side adherent to a stem; -- a term applied to the lateral zooids of corals and other …
Read the complete definitionA division of Hydroidea in which the zooids are naked, or not inclosed in a capsule. See Tubularian.
Read the complete definitionIn certain hydroids, an imperfect zooid, whose special function is to produce medusoid buds. See Hydroidea, and Athecata.
Read the complete definitionAn individual zooid of a bryozoan coralline, of which there may be two or more kinds in a single colony. …
Read the complete definitionOne of the small cuplike cavities, often with elevated borders, covering the surface of most corals. Each is formed by …
Read the complete definitionA hydroid of the family ampanularidae, characterized by having the polyps or zooids inclosed in bell-shaped calicles or hydrothecae.
Read the complete definitionThe common tissue which unites the polyps or zooids of a compound anthozoan or coral. It may be soft or …
Read the complete definitionThe common tissue which unites the various zooids of a bryozoan.
Read the complete definitionA kind of zooid of Siphonophora which has an elongated or even vermiform body, with one tentacle, but no mouth. …
Read the complete definitionOne of the secondary, and usually sexual, zooids produced by budding or fission from the primary zooids, in animals having …
Read the complete definitionOne of the free-swimming sexual zooids of Siphonophora.
Read the complete definitionAn extensive order of rhizopods which generally have a chambered calcareous shell formed by several united zooids. Many of them …
Read the complete definitionA sexual zooid produced as a medusoid bud upon a hydroid, sometimes becoming a free hydromedusa, sometimes remaining attached. See …
Read the complete definitionThe reproductive zooids of a hydroid colony, collectively.
Read the complete definitionA sexual zooid, or medusoid bud of a hydroid; a gonophore. See Hydroidea, and Illust. of Campanularian.
Read the complete definitionOne of the nutritive zooids of a hydroid colony. Also applied to the proboscis or manubrium of a hydroid medusa. …
Read the complete definitionA division of Hydroidea, including those genera that secrete a stony coral, as Millepora and Stylaster. Two forms of zooids …
Read the complete definitionOne of the flat, leaflike, protective zooids, covering other zooids of certain Siphonophora.
Read the complete definitionAll the zooids of a hydroid colony collectively, including the nutritive and reproductive zooids, and often other kinds.
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