| BENZOATE | • benzoate n. (Organic chemistry) Any salt or ester of benzoic acid. • BENZOATE n. a salt of benzoic acid. |
| BRYOZOAN | • bryozoan n. (Zoology) A member of the phylum Bryozoa of aquatic, usually colonial invertebrates. • bryozoan adj. (Zoology) Pertaining to the Bryozoa. • BRYOZOAN n. a type of small aquatic animal, also POLYZOAN. |
| DIPLOZOA | • DIPLOZOON n. a parasitic flatworm that fuses in pairs. |
| ECTOZOAN | • ectozoan n. Alternative form of ectozoon. • ECTOZOAN n. a parasite on the body of an animal, also ECTOZOON. |
| ENTOZOAL | • entozoal adj. (Zoology) Of or relating to the entozoa. • ENTOZOAL adj. having seeds dispersed by animals that swallow them, also ENDOZOIC, ENTOZOIC. |
| ENTOZOAN | • entozoan adj. (Zoology) Of or relating to the Entozoa. • ENTOZOAN n. an internal parasite, also ENDOZOON, ENTOZOON. |
| EPIZOANS | • epizoans n. Plural of epizoan. • EPIZOAN n. an animal that lives on the surface of another, esp. as a parasite, also EPIZOON. |
| HYDROZOA | • hydrozoa n. A large group of marine animals, of the class Hydrozoa, whose life cycles contain a sexual and asexual stage. • Hydrozoa prop.n. A taxonomic class within the phylum Cnidaria – hydrozoas. • HYDROZOON n. any coelenterate of the class Hydrozoa, comprising organisms that are mostly marine and colonial with polyp and medusoid stages in the life cycle, also HYDROZOAN. |
| MESOZOAN | • mesozoan n. Any worm-like, marine parasite of the phylum Mesozoa. • MESOZOAN n. any of a phylum of wormlike organisms. |
| METAZOAL | • metazoal adj. Relating to metazoans. • METAZOAL adj. relating to the metazoa, animals more complex than a unicellular protozoan. |
| METAZOAN | • metazoan n. (Zoology, deprecated) Any animal that undergoes development from an embryo stage with two or three tissue… • metazoan n. (Zoology) Any animal that is multicellular. • metazoan adj. Having to do with animals that develop from an embryo with three tissue layers. |
| PARAZOAN | • parazoan n. (Zoology) Any sponge (of the subkingdom Parazoa). • PARAZOAN n. any of a major division of multicellular animals. |
| POLYZOAN | • polyzoan adj. (Zoology, obsolete) bryozoan. • polyzoan n. (Zoology, obsolete) A bryozoan. • POLYZOAN n. a bryozoan, a moss or liverwort. |
| PROTOZOA | • protozoa n. Plural of protozoan. • protozoa n. Plural of protozoon. • Protozoa prop.n. Protozoans; eukaryotes that are primarily unicellular, existing singly or aggregating into colonies… |
| SPOROZOA | • Sporozoa prop.n. The sporozoans. • SPOROZOON n. a parasitic one-celled animal. |