zooidhttp://www.oed.com/dictionary/zooid_adj%3Ftab%3Dmeaning_and_usezooid, adj.
Revised 2017

† zooidadjective

Obsolete. rare.
  1. 1849
    Resembling an animal, esp. in being motile.
    1. 1849
      Thus, if we examine several of the families of Chlorospermeæ.., we find numerous zooid plants, some of the simplest forms in the organic kingdom, consisting of single rows of organic cells, enveloped in a mucoid substance, and swimming in water.
      J. Leidy in American Journal of Medical Science vol. 17 287
    2. 1849
      Cells..accumulate and fix around and within themselves certain matters which they derive from the surrounding nutritive fluids, as happens in the case of many zooid plants.
      Monthly Journal Med. Science December 1277

zooid, adj. was revised in June 2017.

zooid, adj. was last modified in December 2024.