Word Meanings - ZOOIDAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Of or pertaining to a zooid; as, a zooidal form.
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- PERTAIN
stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant - ZOOID
Pertaining to, or resembling, an animal. - ZOOIDAL
Of or pertaining to a zooid; as, a zooidal form. - 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. - SPIRALOZOOID
One of the special defensive zooids of certain hydroids. They have the form of long, slender tentacles, and bear lasso cells. - DIPHYOZOOID
One of the free-swimming sexual zooids of Siphonophora. - ASCIDIOZOOID
One of the individual members of a compound ascidian. See Ascidioidea. - GONOZOOID
A sexual zooid, or medusoid bud of a hydroid; a gonophore. See Hydroidea, and Illust. of Campanularian. - APPERTAIN
To belong or pertain, whether by right, nature, appointment, or custom; to relate. Things appertaining to this life. Hooker. Give it unto him to whom it appertaineth. Lev. vi. 5. (more info) appartenir, fr. L. appertinere; ad + pertinere to reach