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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A secondary zoöid; a zoöid produced by gemmation from a zoöid; a proglottis.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) One of the secondary, and usually sexual, zooids produced by budding or fission from the primary zooids, in animals having alternate generations. In the tapeworms, the joints are deuterozooids.
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- noun zoology One of the
secondary , and usuallysexual ,zooids produced bybudding orfission from the primary zooids, in animals havingalternate generations .
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