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Definition of Bryozoa
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 Bryozoa
1. n. pl. A class of Molluscoidea, including minute animals which by budding form compound colonies; -- called also Polyzoa.
Definition of Bryozoa
1. Noun. (plural of bryozoon) ¹
2. Noun. (plural of bryozoum) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Bryozoa
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Bryozoa
Literary usage of Bryozoa
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. International Catalogue of Scientific Literature by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1906)
"[bryozoa]. Waters. 69. ... [bryozoa]. Ulrich and Bassler Ci». ... [bryozoa].
- antárctica. Waters. 69. ..."
2. Elementary Text-book of Zoology by Carl Claus, Adam Sedgwick (1885)
"Should tliis view of the close relationship of the Brachiopoda, which are always
solitary, with the bryozoa, which almost always form colonies, ..."
3. Fresh-water Biology by Henry Baldwin Ward, George Chandler Whipple (1918)
"Y. PROMINENT among the animals commonly discovered in fresh water are the bryozoa,
or moss animalcules, also called Polyzoa. They are forms of exceedingly ..."
4. College zoology by Robert William Hegner (1918)
"The bryozoa, or moss-animals, are mostly colonial. They resemble hydroids, like
Obelia (Fig. 73), in form, but differ from them markedly in structure. ..."
5. A Manual of the Common Invertebrate Animals: Exclusive of Insects by Henry Sherring Pratt (1916)
"The majority of bryozoa are marine, being found from tide water to very great depths
... "The bryozoa. Papers from the Harriman Alaska Expedition," by Alice ..."
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