zoo-, zoa-, zo-, -zoic, -zoid, -zoite, -zoal, -zonal, -zooid, -zoon, -zoa, -zoan +

1. Pertaining to, or including, similar forms or kinds of life; such as, homeozoic belts on the earth's surface.
2. A region or series of regions with similar fauna or fauna and flora.

Pertaining to the same animal or the same species.

A class of coelenterates that includes various simple and compound polyps and jellyfishes having no stomodeum or gastric tentacles.

1. Any freshwater or marine coelenterate of the class Hydrozoa, including free-swimming or attached types, as the hydra, in which one developmental stage, either the polyp or medusa, is absent, and colonial types, as the Portuguese man-of-war, in which both medusa and polyp stages are present in a single colony.
2. Of, relating to, or belonging to the class Hydrozoa.

1. One who holds matter to be animated.
2. Of or pertaining to hylozoism.

The philosophical doctrine holding that all matter has life, which is a property or derivative of matter.

Anterior (in front of) in age to the lowest rocks which contain organic remains.

1. Inhabited by similar forms of animal life.
2. Characterized by or indicating the same forms of animal life.

A zooid, or individual of a compound or “colonial” animal organism, not differentiated from the rest; opposite of allozooid.

1. Of or pertaining to the Malacozoa or soft-bodied animals, e.g. the Mollusca.
2. Huxley's term for the series of animals from the lowest Polyzoa to the highest molluscs.

The study or science of soft-bodied animals; such as, Mollusca.

A reference to zoology in its relation to medicine.

Large animals.

1. Any protozoan cell produced by the fission of a schizont, e.g. that of the malaria protozoan.
2. A stage in the life cycle of the malaria parasite (Plasmodium); formed during the asexual division of the schizont (a cell formed during the asexual phase of the life cycle of some single-celled organisms).

Merozoites are released and invade other cells.

The phylum of invertebrates comprising the mesozoans, parasitic wormlike multicellular organisms sometimes considered to be intermediate in complexity between protozoans and metazoans.