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polyzoic, a.|pɒlɪˈzəʊɪk|
[f. Polyzoa + -ic. So F. polyzoique.]
1. Zool. Pertaining to or of the nature of the Polyzoa; composed of a number of individual zooids constituting a ‘colony’, compound, colonial.
1855Eng. Cycl., Nat. Hist. III. 858/2 The Polyzoic type [of Mollusca] itself presents five subordinate modifications in the five principal orders of the group. 1861Hulme tr. Moquin-Tandon ii. ii. 60 Duvernoy believed in the polyzoic nature of the Tænias and similar animals. 1903[see polypsychic].
b. In Sporozoa, Applied to a spore which produces many germs or sporozoites.
1901G. N. Calkins Protozoa 153 The archispores..form a definite number of sporozoites, varying from one (monozoic) or two (dizoic) to many (polyzoic).
2. Anthropol. Characterized by a belief in many imaginary living beings.
1886Encycl. Brit. XX. 367/2 Perhaps the best name for this first stage of religious development might be the ‘polyzoic’ stage.
So polyzoism |-ˈzəʊɪz(ə)m|, the character of being polyzoic (sense 1).
1890W. James Princ. Psychol. I. vi. 179 It may be called the theory of polyzoism or multiple monadism. 1903Myers Hum. Personality I. Gloss., Polyzoism, the property, in a complex organism, of being composed of minor and quasi-independent organisms (like the polyzoa or ‘sea-mats’). |