zooid

Biology, Natural sciences An organic body or cell having locomotion, as a spermatic cell or spermatozoid.

Biology, Natural sciences, Zoology An animal in one of its inferior or early stages of development, as one of the intermediate forms in alternate generation.

Biology, Natural sciences, Zoology One of the individual animals in a composite group, as of Anthozoa, Hydrozoa, and Bryozoa; — sometimes restricted to those individuals in which the mouth and digestive organs are not developed.