zoocytium

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. The common gelatinous matrix or support of certain compound or colonial infusorians, composed of a substance secreted by and containing the individual animalcules; an infusorial syncytium; a zoöthecium. Compare zoödendrium. See cut under Epistylis.

Wiktionary

1. n. Alternative form of zoöcytium.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. (Zoöl.) The common support, often branched, of certain species of social Infusoria.