bell notificationshomepageloginedit profileclubsdmBox

Search word meanings:

Word Meanings - GONOZOOID - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A sexual zooid, or medusoid bud of a hydroid; a gonophore. See Hydroidea, and Illust. of Campanularian.

Related words: (words related to GONOZOOID)

  • GONOPHORE
    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.
  • ILLUSTROUS
    Without luster.
  • ILLUSTRIOUS
    1. Possessing luster or brightness; brilliant; luminous; splendid. Quench the light; thine eyes are guides illustrious. Beau. & Fl. 2. Characterized by greatness, nobleness, etc.; eminent; conspicuous; distinguished. Illustrious earls, renowened
  • ILLUSTRATIVELY
    By way of illustration or elucidation. Sir T. Browne.
  • ILLUSTRATIVE
    1. Tending or designed to illustrate, exemplify, or elucidate. 2. Making illustrious.
  • ZOOID
    Pertaining to, or resembling, an animal.
  • SEXUALLY
    In a sexual manner or relation.
  • ILLUSTRIOUSNESS
    The state or quality of being eminent; greatness; grandeur; glory; fame.
  • ILLUSTRATION
    1. The act of illustrating; the act of making clear and distinct; education; also, the state of being illustrated, or of being made clear and distinct. 2. That which illustrates; a comparison or example intended to make clear or apprehensible,
  • 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
  • ILLUSTRIOUSLY
    In a illustrious manner; conspicuously; eminently; famously. Milton.
  • HYDROID
    Related to, or resembling, the hydra; of or pertaining to the Hydroidea. -- n.
  • CAMPANULARIAN
    A hydroid of the family ampanularidæ, characterized by having the polyps or zooids inclosed in bell-shaped calicles or hydrothecæ.
  • ILLUSTRATE
    1. To make clear, bright, or luminous. Here, when the moon illustrates all the sky. Chapman. 2. To set in a clear light; to exhibit distinctly or conspicuously. Shak. To prove him, and illustrate his high worth. Milton. 3. To make clear,
  • MEDUSOID
    Like a medusa; having the fundamental structure of a medusa, but without a locomotive disk; -- said of the sessile gonophores of hydroids. -- n.
  • SEXUALITY
    The quality or state of being distinguished by sex. Lindley.
  • ILLUSTRATOR
    One who illustrates.
  • SEXUALIST
    One who classifies plants by the sexual method of Linnæus.
  • ILLUSTRABLE
    Capable of illustration. Sir T. Browne.
  • ZOOIDAL
    Of or pertaining to a zooid; as, a zooidal form.
  • 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.
  • TRITOZOOID
    A zooid of the third generation in asexual reproduction.
  • DACTYLOZOOID
    A kind of zooid of Siphonophora which has an elongated or even vermiform body, with one tentacle, but no mouth. See Siphonophora.
  • 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.
  • ANTHEROZOID; ANTHEROZOOID
    One of the mobile male reproductive bodies in the antheridia of cryptogams.
  • ASEXUAL
    Having no distinct; without sexual action; as, asexual reproduction. See Fission and Gemmation.
  • NONSEXUAL
    Having no distinction of sex; sexless; neuter.

 

Back to top