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Word Meanings - DIPHYOZOOID - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One of the free-swimming sexual zooids of Siphonophora.

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  • SWIMMINGNESS
    Act or state of swimming; suffusion. "A swimmingness in the eye." Congreve.
  • SWIMMING
    1. That swims; capable of swimming; adapted to, or used in, swimming; as, a swimming bird; a swimming motion. 2. Suffused with moisture; as, swimming eyes. Swimming bell , a nectocalyx. See Illust. under Siphonophora. -- Swimming crab , any one
  • SIPHONOPHORA
    An order of pelagic Hydrozoa including species which form complex free-swimming communities composed of numerous zooids of various kinds, some of which act as floats or as swimming organs, others as feeding or nutritive zooids, and others
  • SEXUALLY
    In a sexual manner or relation.
  • SIPHONOPHORAN
    Belonging to the Siphonophora. -- n.
  • SEXUALITY
    The quality or state of being distinguished by sex. Lindley.
  • SWIMMERET
    One of a series of flat, fringed, and usually bilobed, appendages, of which several pairs occur on the abdominal somites of many crustaceans. They are used as fins in swimming.
  • SEXUALIST
    One who classifies plants by the sexual method of Linnæus.
  • SWIMMER
    A protuberance on the leg of a horse. (more info) 1. One who swims.
  • SWIMMINGLY
    In an easy, gliding manner, as if swimming; smoothly; successfully; prosperously.
  • SEXUAL
    Of or pertaining to sex, or the sexes; distinguishing sex; peculiar to the distinction and office of male or female; relating to the distinctive genital organs of the sexes; proceeding from, or based upon, sex; as, sexual characteristics; sexual
  • SEXUALIZE
    To attribute sex to.
  • ASEXUALIZATION
    The act or process of sterilizing an animal or human being, as by vasectomy.
  • ASEXUALLY
    In an asexual manner; without sexual agency.
  • FREE-SWIMMING
    Swimming in the open sea; -- said of certain marine animals.
  • ASEXUAL
    Having no distinct; without sexual action; as, asexual reproduction. See Fission and Gemmation.
  • NONSEXUAL
    Having no distinction of sex; sexless; neuter.
  • UNSEXUAL
    Not sexual; not proper or peculiar to one of the sexes. De Quincey.
  • ESEXUAL
    Sexless; asexual.
  • UNISEXUAL
    Having one sex only, as plants which have the male and female flowers on separate individuals, or animals in which the sexes are in separate individuals; dioecious; -- distinguished from bisexual, or hermaphrodite. See Dioecious.

 

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