The polypide in bryozoans encompasses most of the organs and tissues of each individual zooid. This includes the tentacles, tentacle sheath, U-shaped digestive tract, musculature and nerve cells. It is housed in the zooidal skeleton, which in cyclostomes is tubular and in cheilostomes is box-shaped. ...
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• (n.) One of the ordinary zooids of the Bryozoa.
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(from the article `moss animal`) ...is the digestive tract visible. The internal living parts of each zooid—i.e., the nervous and muscular systems, the tentacles, and the digestive ... ...testes) are sited on the lining of the body wall or on the funiculus, a cord of tissue that links the stomach to the lining of the body wall and ...
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Pol'y·pide noun (Zoology) One of the ordinary zooids of the Bryozoa. [ Spellt also
polypid .]
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