Word Meanings - GONOPHORE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A sexual zooid produced as a medusoid bud upon a hydroid, sometimes becoming a free hydromedusa, sometimes remaining attached. See Hydroidea, and Illusts. of Athecata, Campanularian, and Gonosome.

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• ZOOID
  Pertaining to, or resembling, an animal.
• PRODUCIBILITY
  The quality or state of being producible. Barrow.
• ATHECATA
  A division of Hydroidea in which the zooids are naked, or not inclosed in a capsule. See Tubularian.
• PRODUCEMENT
  Production.
• SOMETIMES
  1. Formerly; sometime. That fair and warlike form In which the majesty of buried Denmark Did sometimes march. Shak. 2. At times; at intervals; now and then;occasionally. It is good that we sometimes be contradicted. Jer. Taylor. Sometimes . . .
• REMAIN
  re- + manere to stay, remain. See Mansion, and cf. Remainder, 1. To stay behind while others withdraw; to be left after others have been removed or destroyed; to be left after a number or quantity has been subtracted or cut off; to be left as not
• BECOME
  happen; akin to D. bekomen, OHG.a piquëman, Goth. biquiman to come 1. To pass from one state to another; to enter into some state or condition, by a change from another state, or by assuming or receiving new properties or qualities, additional
• PRODUCTIVITY
  The quality or state of being productive; productiveness. Emerson. Not indeed as the product, but as the producing power, the productivity. Coleridge.
• PRODUCTUS
  An extinct genus of brachiopods, very characteristic of the Carboniferous rocks.
• GONOSOME
  The reproductive zooids of a hydroid colony, collectively.
• ATTACH
  tach, nail, E. tack a small nail, tack to fasten. Cf. Attack, and see 1. To bind, fasten, tie, or connect; to make fast or join; as, to attach one thing to another by a string, by glue, or the like. The shoulder blade is . . . attached only to
• PRODUCTILE
  Capable of being extended or prolonged; extensible; ductile.
• BECOMED
  Proper; decorous. And gave him what becomed love I might. Shak.
• PRODUCER
  A furnace for producing combustible gas which is used for fuel. (more info) 1. One who produces, brings forth, or generates. 2. One who grows agricultural products, or manufactures crude materials into articles of use.
• PRODUCENT
  One who produces, or offers to notice. Ayliffe.
• SEXUALLY
  In a sexual manner or relation.
• BECOMINGLY
  In a becoming manner.
• HYDROIDEA
  Note: This order includes the hydras and the free-swimming hydromedusæ, together with a great variety of marine attached hydroids, many of which grow up into large, elegantly branched forms, consisting of a vast number of zooids , united
• HYDROID
  Related to, or resembling, the hydra; of or pertaining to the Hydroidea. -- n.
• REMAINDER
  The quantity or sum that is left after subtraction, or after any deduction. (more info) 1. Anything that remains, or is left, after the separation and removal of a part; residue; remnant. "The last remainders of unhappy Troy." Dryden. If these
• UNBECOMING
  Not becoming; unsuitable; unfit; indecorous; improper. My grief lets unbecoming speeches fall. Dryden. -- Un`be*com"ing*ly, adv. -- Un`be*com"ing*ness, n.
• ASEXUALIZATION
  The act or process of sterilizing an animal or human being, as by vasectomy.
• ASEXUALLY
  In an asexual manner; without sexual agency.
• SPERMATOZOOID
  A spermatozoid.
• OVERPRODUCTION
  Excessive production; supply beyond the demand. J. S. Mill.
• TRITOZOOID
  A zooid of the third generation in asexual reproduction.
• REATTACHMENT
  The act of reattaching; a second attachment.
• DACTYLOZOOID
  A kind of zooid of Siphonophora which has an elongated or even vermiform body, with one tentacle, but no mouth. See Siphonophora.
• UNBECOME
  To misbecome. Bp. Sherlock.
• DEUTEROZOOID
  One of the secondary, and usually sexual, zooids produced by budding or fission from the primary zooids, in animals having alternate generations. In the tapeworms, the joints are deuterozooids.
• REPRODUCTORY
  Reproductive.
• MISBECOMING
  Unbecoming. Milton. -- Mis`be*com"ing*ly, adv. -- Mis`be*com"ing*ness, n. Boyle.