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has gloss	(noun) one of the distinct individuals forming a colonial animal such as a bryozoan or hydrozoan zooid
has gloss	eng: A zooid is a term for a small individual animal, part of a marine colony. The zooids in a colony are usually clones, and may be cytoplasmically connected. Though genetically identical, the zooids in a colony may serve different functions. This is the same as would be the case with a normal metazoan animal, but in a zooid colony the members are more like individuals.
lexicalization	eng: zooid
subclass of	(noun) a living thing that has (or can develop) the ability to act or function independently being, organism

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