zooid

adj. resembling a zooid, resembling an organism

n. independent and distinct organism

Noun
1. one of the distinct individuals forming a colonial animal such as a bryozoan or hydrozoan
(hypernym) organism, being

n. zooid, independent and distinct organism

(n.)
One of the individual animals in a composite group, as of Anthozoa, Hydroidea, and Bryozoa; -- sometimes restricted to those individuals in which the mouth and digestive organs are not developed.
  

(n.)
An organic body or cell having locomotion, as a spermatic cell or spermatozooid.
  

(n.)
An animal in one of its inferior stages of development, as one of the intermediate forms in alternate generation.
  

(a.)
Pertaining to, or resembling, an animal.
  

ZOOIDE