Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The original name of one of the animais afterward grouped as Polyzoa and Bryozoa; a kind of polyzoan or bryozoan.
- A class of molluscoid invertebrated animals; the moss-animalcules, seamosses, or sea-mats.
- In Protozoa, the polyzoan radiolarians: another name of the Polycyttaria or Collozoa.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun plural (Zoöl.) Same as
bryozoa . SeeIllust. underbryozoa , andphylactolæmata .
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- noun Plural form of
polyzoon ., tiny animals that form compound colonies - noun zoology The class of molluscs that the above belong to
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- noun marine or freshwater animals that form colonies of zooids
Etymologies
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Examples
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You will often find other forms of polyzoa in clear ponds and mill-pools; sometimes you would suppose you were looking at a mass of sponge, as in the case of
Country Walks of a Naturalist with His Children W. Houghton
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It looks likely to contain some fresh-water polyzoa, than which there are few more beautiful tenants of the water.
Country Walks of a Naturalist with His Children W. Houghton
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Mollusca, rotifers, polyzoa, and such infusoria as are not included in types (1) and (2) belong to the massive type, in which the body and its parts form rounded masses.
Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology
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And as the little coral reef out of a vast depth had been built up by generations of polyzoa, so she would see that on the earth, through illimitable ages, successive generations of animals and plants had left in stone their imperishable records: and at the top of the series she would meet the thinking, breathing creature known as man.
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And as the little coral reef out of a vast depth had been built up by generations of polyzoa, so she would see that on the earth, through illimitable ages, successive generations of animals and plants had left in stone their imperishable records: and at the top of the series she would meet the thinking, breathing creature known as man.
The Evolution of Modern Medicine A Series of Lectures Delivered at Yale University on the Silliman Foundation in April, 1913 William Osler 1884
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