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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An animal form containing all the elements of a typical organism of the group to which it belongs; a morphological individual regarded as the whole product of an impregnated ovum, which may or may not be divided into persons or zoöids without true generation. See
zoöid .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun An animal which is the sole product of a single egg; -- opposed to
zooid . - noun Any one of the perfectly developed individuals of a compound animal.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun zoology Alternative spelling of
zoon .
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