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Answer for the clue "One of the distinct individuals forming a colonial animal such as a bryozoan or hydrozoan ", 5 letters:
zooid

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Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. (context biology English) Relating to, or resembling, an animal. n. 1 (context biology English) An organic body or cell having locomotion, as a spermatic cell or spermatozoid. 2 (context zoology English) An animal in one of its inferior or early stages ...

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n. one of the distinct individuals forming a colonial animal such as a bryozoan or hydrozoan

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Zooid \Zo"oid\, n. (Biol.) An organic body or cell having locomotion, as a spermatic cell or spermatozooid. (Zo["o]l.) An animal in one of its inferior stages of development, as one of the intermediate forms in alternate generation. One of the individual ...

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A zooid or zoöid is a single animal that is part of a colonial animal. Zooids are multicellular; their structure is similar to that of other solitary animals. The zooids can either be directly connected by tissue (e.g. corals , Catenulida , Siphonophorae ...