English Explanatory Dictionary

deuterozooid

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. One of the secondary, and usually sexual, zooids produced by budding or fission from the primary zooids, in animals having alternate generations.

Word forms

deuterozooid deuterozooids

Etymology

From deutero- + zooid.

Related words

protozooid tritozooid
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