microzooid
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- noun
- /ˌmaɪkroʊˈzuːɔɪd/
- Specialized
:
microzooide
- Using a microscope, we could see the tiny microzooids moving around in the sample.
- microzooids grow
- culturing microzooids
- send microzooids
Examples
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The tabletop holostage showed the microzooids magnified, ring-shaped cells with occasional buds on one side.
Fiction book (1998) -
She's one of the few people with data on microzooids, most of it unpublished.
Fiction book (1998) -
"The generation time of the microzooids is only a day," she said at last.
Fiction book (1998) -
Station said, "We'll have to figure out how the microzooids trigger pain."
Fiction book (1998) -
" We've got to grow those microzooids in pure culture," Khral went on.
Fiction book (1998) -
Rod hurried to find Khral in her laboratory, culturing microzooids out of light pods.
Fiction book (1998) -
In the petri dish, the scientist observed several microzooids swimming in the water.
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Researchers discovered a colony of microzooids living beneath the ice in the lake.
Synonyms
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A small animal that lives attached to others in a group and often has its own job
A tiny living creature that you can see only with a microscope, like an amoeba
A very small single-celled creature that you can see with a microscope, like an amoeba
How Small
- Specialized
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- Specialized
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Microzooid is made of micro- ('small') and zooid (from zoo meaning 'animal' and -oid meaning 'like'), the same zoo you see in zoology. So a microzooid is a 'small animal-like unit', which fits its use for very small animal organisms in colonies.