polyzoic

[ pol-ee-zoh-ik ]

adjective

1. (of a bryozoan colony) composed of many zooids.
2. (of a spore) producing many sporozoites.
3. (of a habitat) containing many animals or many different kinds of animals.

polyzoic

/ ˌpɒlɪˈzəʊɪk /

adjective

1. (of certain colonial animals) having many zooids or similar polyps
2. producing or containing many sporozoites

Word History and Origins

Origin of polyzoic¹

First recorded in 1850–55; poly- + zo- + -ic

Example Sentences

I regard each man as at once profoundly unitary and almost infinitely composite, as inheriting from earthly ancestors a multiplex and "colonial" organism—polyzoic and perhaps polypsychic in an extreme degree; but also as ruling and unifying that organism by a soul or spirit absolutely beyond our present analysis—a soul which has originated in a spiritual or metetherial environment; which even while embodied subsists in that environment; and which will still subsist therein after the body's decay.

From Project Gutenberg

Polyzoic Conception of Organism— Dugès, 87Perrier, 88 Prévost and Dumas, 125 f.n.,

From Project Gutenberg