zooid

n.[生]游动孢子

动物个体（尤指水螅和珊瑚虫的个体）；变形虫

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1、The colonial growth form appears particularly suited to sessile, marine organisms such as corals and their relatives, jellyfish, tunicates, echinoderms, sponges, and zooids of algae and colonial ascidians.
这种群落生长形式对于如珊瑚和其它无脊椎动物、水母、海鞘、棘皮动物、海绵和藻类等固着在海洋中的生物尤为适合。
2、Each zooid is a marine invertebrate that has developed from a bud in another zooid.
每个虫体是由另一个虫体中的一个芽发育而来的海洋无脊椎动物。