zooid

/หˆzuหษ”ษชd/

IPA: /Z UW1 IH0 D/

noun
  1. 1

    An organic body or cell having locomotion, as a spermatic cell or spermatozoid.

  2. 2

    An animal in one of its inferior or early stages of development, as one of the intermediate forms in alternate generation.

  3. 3

    One of the individual animals in a composite group, as of Anthozoa, Hydrozoa, and Bryozoa; โ€” sometimes restricted to those individuals in which the mouth and digestive organs are not developed.

adjective
  1. 1

    Relating to, or resembling, an animal.

Source: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/zooid