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.