AUTOZOOID

autozooid: translation

n. [Gr. autos, self; zoon, animal; eidos, form]

1. (BRYOZOA)

a. A zooid having at some stages of ontogeny a protrusible lophophore, with or without the ability to feed. b. A common bryozoan containing feeding organs in the colony; capable of all life functions in a monomorphic colony.

2. (CNIDARIA: Anthozoa)

In Alcyonaria, a feeding individual member of a polymorphic colony.