Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The body of nutritive zoöids of any hydrozoan; an aggregate of gastrozoöids forming a colony of polypites which do not develop free generative persons: distinguished from
gonosome , both being among the parts of an entire hydrosome.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) The nutritive zooids of a hydroid, collectively, as distinguished from the gonosome, or reproductive zooids.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun biology The group of
nutritive zooids of ahydrozoan - noun biology The mass of
chemolithoautotrophic bacteria in apogonophoran that metabolizessulfide
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Previous groups had shown that, after a larva quits swimming and attaches itself to the bottom of the ocean near a volcanic vent, its mouth disappears and its stomach shrinks away, even as it grows a specialized organ called the trophosome that houses the symbiotic bacteria it collects.
Hydrothermal Vent Tubeworms Edosymbiosis Staq Mavlen 2006
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