deuterozooid Meaning, Definition & Usage

Deu`ter*o*zo"oid noun
Etymology
Gr. second + E. zooid.
Definitions
  1. (Zoöl.) One of the secondary, and usually sexual, zooids produced by budding or fission from the primary zooids, in animals having alternate generations. In the tapeworms, the joints are deuterozooids.

Webster 1913