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

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

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.

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

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

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.

1. Resembling an animal. 2. A unicellular organism of indefinite classification, a zoophyte. 3. An animal cell capable of independent existence or movement, as the ovum or a spermatozoon. 4. A term sometimes applied to hemoglobin because of its assumed vital properties.

A term used to denote organic bodies, sometimes free and locomotive, which may resemble but are not animals.

A member of a compound animal organism; an individual or person in a coelenterate or polyzoan colony; the posterior genital and non-sexual region formed in many Polychaetes.

A form which resembles an animal.

1. Like an animal; of the nature of an animal.

As a n., an organism resembling an animal, especially one of the more or less completely independent organisms produced by gemmation or fission, Whether remaining attached to one another or detached and set free.

As a n., of Brticke, the nucleus and coloring matter of a red blood corpuscle. [Gr., zoon, an animal, + eidos, resemblance.]

n. [Greek] An organic cell having locomotion like a true animal, as a spermatozoa; an animal in one of its inferior stages of development; one of the individuals in a composite group, as of zoophytes.