Wondering how to use Zooid in a sentence? Below are 2 example sentences from authentic English texts. Including the meaning and synonyms such as organism or being.
Zooid meaning
- An organic body or cell having locomotion, as a spermatic cell or spermatozoid.
- An animal in one of its inferior or early stages of development, as one of the intermediate forms in alternate generation.
- One of the individual animals in a composite group, as of Anthozoa, Hydrozoa, and Bryozoa; — sometimes restricted to those individuals in which the mouth and digestive organs are not developed.
Using Zooid
- The main meaning on this page is: An organic body or cell having locomotion, as a spermatic cell or spermatozoid. | An animal in one of its inferior or early stages of development, as one of the intermediate forms in alternate generation. | One of the individual animals in a composite group, as of Anthozoa, Hydrozoa, and Bryozoa; — sometimes restricted to those individuals in which the mouth and digestive organs are not developed.
- Useful related words include: organism, being.
Context around Zooid
- Average sentence length in these examples: 28 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 1 middle, 0 end
- Sentence types: 2 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Zooid
- In this selection, "zooid" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 28 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, single, normal, known and grows stand out and add context to how "zooid" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a normal zooid and a single zooid known as. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "zooid" sits close to words such as aabc, aacr and aacsb, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with zooid
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Each colony grows by asexual budding from a single zooid known as the ancestrula, which is round rather than shaped like a normal zooid. (24 words)
What type of zooid grows where in a colony is determined by chemical signals from the colony as a whole or sometimes in response to the scent of predators or rival colonies. (32 words)
What type of zooid grows where in a colony is determined by chemical signals from the colony as a whole or sometimes in response to the scent of predators or rival colonies. (32 words)
Each colony grows by asexual budding from a single zooid known as the ancestrula, which is round rather than shaped like a normal zooid. (24 words)
Example sentences (2)
Each colony grows by asexual budding from a single zooid known as the ancestrula, which is round rather than shaped like a normal zooid.
What type of zooid grows where in a colony is determined by chemical signals from the colony as a whole or sometimes in response to the scent of predators or rival colonies.