actinozoan | (noun) sessile marine coelenterates including solitary and colonial polyps; the medusoid phase is entirely suppressed | Synonyms: anthozoan |
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anthozoan | (noun) sessile marine coelenterates including solitary and colonial polyps; the medusoid phase is entirely suppressed | Synonyms: actinozoan |
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antiprotozoal | (noun) a medicinal drug used to fight diseases (like malaria) that are caused by protozoa | Synonyms: antiprotozoal drug |
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benzoate | (noun) any salt or ester of benzoic acid | - |
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bryozoan | (noun) sessile aquatic animal forming mossy colonies of small polyps each having a curved or circular ridge bearing tentacles; attach to stones or seaweed and reproduce by budding | Synonyms: moss animal, polyzoan, sea mat, sea moss |
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ectozoan | (adjective) of or relating to epizoa | Synonyms: epizoan |
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(noun) any external parasitic organism (as fleas) | Synonyms: ectoparasite, ectozoon, epizoan, epizoon |
endozoan | (adjective) of or relating to entozoa | Synonyms: entozoan |
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(noun) any of various parasites that live in the internal organs of animals (especially intestinal worms) | Synonyms: endoparasite, entoparasite, entozoan, entozoon |
entozoan | (adjective) living within a living animal usually as a parasite | Synonyms: endozoic, entozoic |
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(adjective) of or relating to entozoa | Synonyms: endozoan |
(noun) any of various parasites that live in the internal organs of animals (especially intestinal worms) | Synonyms: endoparasite, endozoan, entoparasite, entozoon |
epizoan | (adjective) of or relating to epizoa | Synonyms: ectozoan |
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(noun) any external parasitic organism (as fleas) | Synonyms: ectoparasite, ectozoan, ectozoon, epizoon |
heliozoan | (noun) protozoa with spherical bodies and stiff radiating pseudopods | - |
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hydrozoan | (noun) colonial coelenterates having the polyp phase dominant | Synonyms: hydroid |
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leucocytozoan | (noun) parasitic in birds | Synonyms: leucocytozoon |
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metazoan | (noun) any animal of the subkingdom Metazoa; all animals except protozoans and sponges | - |
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parazoan | (noun) primitive multicellular marine animal whose porous body is supported by a fibrous skeletal framework; usually occurs in sessile colonies | Synonyms: poriferan, sponge |
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polyzoa | (noun) marine or freshwater animals that form colonies of zooids | Synonyms: Bryozoa, phylum Bryozoa |
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polyzoan | (noun) sessile aquatic animal forming mossy colonies of small polyps each having a curved or circular ridge bearing tentacles; attach to stones or seaweed and reproduce by budding | Synonyms: bryozoan, moss animal, sea mat, sea moss |
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protozoal | (adjective) of or relating to the Protozoa | Synonyms: protozoan, protozoic |
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protozoan | (adjective) of or relating to the Protozoa | Synonyms: protozoal, protozoic |
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(noun) any of diverse minute acellular or unicellular organisms usually nonphotosynthetic | Synonyms: protozoon |
scyphozoan | (noun) any of various usually free-swimming marine coelenterates having a gelatinous medusoid stage as the dominant phase of its life cycle | - |
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spermatozoan | (noun) the male reproductive cell; the male gamete | Synonyms: sperm, sperm cell, spermatozoon |
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sporozoan | (noun) parasitic spore-forming protozoan | - |
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trichobezoar | (noun) a compact mass of hair that forms in the alimentary canal (especially in the stomach of animals as a result of licking fur) | Synonyms: hair ball, hairball |
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zoanthropy | (noun) the delusion that you have assumed the form of an animal | - |
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zoarium | (noun) a colony of zooids. | - |
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