ZOOPHYTE
\zˈuːfa͡ɪt], \zˈuːfaɪt], \z_ˈuː_f_aɪ_t]\
Definitions of ZOOPHYTE
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1920 - A dictionary of scientific terms.
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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A phylum of small sessile aquatic animals living as small tufted colonies. Some appear like hydroids or corals, but their internal structure is more advanced. Most bryozoans are matlike, forming thin encrustations on rocks, shells, or kelp. (Storer & Stebbins, General Zoology, 6th ed, p443)
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n. [Greek] An organic body sharing, or supposed to partake of the nature, both of an animal and of a plant, as madrepores, mellepores, corallines; pl. One of the great divisions of the animal kingdom, the simplest in organic structure, containing such as have their parts or organs more or less distinctly radiating from a centre or arranged round an axis-there are five subdivisions, polypi, infusoria, acalepha, echinodermata, and entozoa.