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Definition of Polyzoa
1. Noun. Marine or freshwater animals that form colonies of zooids.
Group relationships: Animal Kingdom, Animalia, Kingdom Animalia
Member holonyms: Bryozoan, Moss Animal, Polyzoan, Sea Mat, Sea Moss, Ectoprocta, Phylum Ectoprocta, Endoprocta, Entoprocta, Phylum Entoprocta
Generic synonyms: Phylum
Definition of Polyzoa
1. n. pl. Same as Bryozoa. See Illust. under Bryozoa, and Phylactolæmata.
Definition of Polyzoa
1. Noun. (plural of polyzoon), tiny animals that form compound colonies ¹
2. Noun. (zoology) The class of molluscs that the above belong to ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Polyzoa
1. polyzoon [n] - See also: polyzoon
Medical Definition of Polyzoa
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Polyzoa
Literary usage of Polyzoa
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Cambridge Natural History by Sidney Frederick Harmer, Arthur Everett Shipley (1896)
"There • are but few polyzoa which have earned the distinction of possessing a
popular name, and most of such names as do exist cannot be found outside ..."
2. Report of the Annual Meeting (1883)
"A PARTIAL examination of the Jurassic polyzoa -was made by ... In 1854, Jules
Haime examined critically the whole of the Jurassic polyzoa then known, ..."
3. The Germ-plasm: A Theory of Heredity by August Weismann (1893)
"B. — polyzoa The small stocks or colonies formed in the polyzoa arise by a ...
and also in certain groups of polyzoa to the outer (serous) layer of the ..."
4. The Standard Natural History by John Sterling Kingsley, Frederich Anton Heller von Hellwald, Elliott Coues (1884)
"The next step was to recognize the affinities of the two, and, as a consequence,
the polyzoa were placed alongside the Brachiopoda, as members of the great ..."
5. Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science edited by Biologists Limited, The Company of. (1880)
"A History of the British Marine polyzoa. By THOMAS HINCKS, BA, ... In the systematic
part which follows the groups of polyzoa are taken up one by one and ..."
6. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria by Royal Society of Victoria (Melbourne, Vic.), Royal Society of Victoria (1903)
"Further Descriptions of the Tertiary polyzoa of Victoria.—Part IX. ... if his
definition of it given in his catalogue of the Marine polyzoa of Victoria, p. ..."
7. Forms of Animal Life: A Manual of Comparative Anatomy : with Descriptions of by George Rolleston, William Hatchett Jackson (1888)
"... polyzoa will have to be separated in all probability from the other polyzoa,
as well as from the remaining classes, with the possible exception of ..."
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