单词 | autozooid |
释义 | autozooidn. Zoology. In some bryozoans and anthozoans: a normal feeding zooid, as distinguished from a siphonozooid. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Diploblastica > phylum Coelenterata > [noun] > class Anthozoa Actinozoa > order Alcyonaria > member of > zooid autozooid1881 1881 H. N. Moseley Corals in C. W. Thomson Rep. Sci. Results Voy. Challenger 1873–6: Zool. II. vii. 118 I propose to term in the case of Alcyonarians, in which there are two kinds of zooids, the sexual forms ‘autozooids’, and the aborted polyps (zooids of Kölliker) ‘siphonozoids’. a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) I. v. 108 Sea-Pens... The larger individuals are called autozooids and the small ones siphonozooids. 1990 V. A. Harris Sessile Animals of Sea Shore ix. 178 Only autozooids are capable of sexual reproduction, although not all may do so. 2001 Aquatic Life of World (Marshall Cavendish Corporation) IX. 516/2 Feeding polyps, called autozooids, filter plankton and other food particles from the water. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1881 |
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