zooid in English

noun
1
an animal arising from another by budding or division, especially each of the individuals that make up a colonial organism and typically have different forms and functions.
The most integrated colonies behave like individual organisms, for the zooids making up the colony are all specialized for certain functions and connected to each other.

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1. The shape of the Avicularian zooid can be identical

2. Proximal Avicularium broadly club-shaped, recumbent on the frontal surface of the central zooid, mandible short, lightly triangular and hooked, and oriented perpendicular to the frontal plane of the zooid

3. The Bryozoan zooid is a complex animal with cell layers, tissues and organs

4. 5, close-up including autozooids, an ovicellate zooid and an adventitious Avicularium (200 µm).

5. Avicularium In some polymorphic (see POLYMORPHISM) colonial Bryozoa, a zooid shaped like the head of a bird. Source for information on Avicularium: A Dictionary of Zoology dictionary.

6. (noun) 3) has very constant anatomical characters, differing in some important respects from the Actinian zooid, which has been taken as a type.

7. Avicularium (plural avicularia) ( biology ) A modified zooid , in some colonial bryozoans , in the form of a beak , that prevents other organisms from settling on the colony Latin [ edit ]

8. Avicularium definitions (biology) A modified zooid, in some colonial bryozoans, in the form of a beak, that prevents other organisms from settling on the colony.

9. In Actinians the epithelio-muscular cells of the endoderm are crowded with yellow spherical bodies, which are unicellular plants or Algae, living symbiotically in the tissues of the zooid

10. In freshwater Bryozoa, development is within an embryo sac that is an invagination of the body wall of the stationary trunk section of the zooid, bulging into the coelom

11. Avicularium The Avicularium in cheilostome bryozoans is a modified, non-feeding zooid. The operculum, which normally closes the orifice when the zooids tentacles are retracted, has been modified to become a mandible

12. Like other species of Bryozoans (also known as Ectoprocta or commonly as moss animals), the individual microscopic aquatic invertebrates (called a zooid) live directly on submerged surfaces in a colony (Ricciardi and Reiswig 1994, Wood 2010).

13. The Avicularium type of zooid has a small body and a rudimentary polypide; the operculum, however, is proportionally larger, has strong adductor (closing) muscles, and has become, in effect, a jaw. Avicularia are found among normal zooids but usually are smaller and attached to normal zooids, as in the gymnolaemate Schizoporella.