Word Meanings - DIPHYOZOOID - Book Publishers vocabulary database
One of the free-swimming sexual zooids of Siphonophora.
Related words: (words related to DIPHYOZOOID)
- 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.