a phylum of marine or freshwater animals that form colonies of zooids
animal noun (animals and microorganisms)
Bryozoa*
(* Bryozoa may be used in a singular or plural context)
polyzoa [plural]
a phylum of aquatic invertebrate animals. Typically about 0.5 millimetres long, they are filter feeders that sieve food particles out of the water using a retractable lophophore, a "crown" of tentacles lined with cilia. Most marine species live in ... (39 of 9935 words, 5 images)
any member of the phylum Bryozoa, in which there are about 5,000 extant species. Another 15,000 species are known only from fossils. As with ... (24 of 99 words)
name of a phylum, in older systems of classification, that included the invertebrate animals now classified in the phyla Entoprocta and Ectoprocta. ... (22 of 41 words, pronunciation)
a taxonomic phylum, within superphylum Protostomia - the polyzoa (9 of 24 words, 1 etymology, pronunciation)
a phylum of invertebrates comprising about 4000 marine and freshwater species of bryozoans. (13 of 21 words, pronunciation)
an invertebrate ocean animal that reproduces by budding. Bryozoans often form colonies on the sea bottom or attached to seaweed. Phylum Bryozoa. (22 of 51 words, 1 etymology, pronunciation)
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