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zooid

zo.oid \'zo--.o.id\ \zo--'o.id-*l, z*-'wo.id-\ n : an entity that resembles 
   but is not wholly the same as a separate indivi dual organism : as : an 
   organized body (as a phagocyte or a sperm cell) having locomotion  : a more 
   or less independent animal produced (as by fission, proliferatio n, or 
   strobilation) by other than direct sexual methods and so having an 
   equivocal individuality - zo.oi.dal aj