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All the zooids of a hydroid colony collectively, including the nutritive and reproductive zooids, and often other kinds.

Used in copulation; -- said of the external reproductive organs of the males of many animals, and sometimes of those of the females.

lic symbol under which Siva is principally worshiped in his character of the creative and reproductive power. Whitworth. E. Arnold.

The essential female reproductive organ in which the ova are produced. See Illust. of Discophora.

, with a large zooid in the center of the under side, surrounded by smaller nutritive and reproductive zooids, and by slender dactylozooids near the margin. The disk contains a central float, or pneumatocyst.

One of the free, or nearly free, segments of a tapeworm. It contains both male and female reproductive organs, and is capable of a brief independent existence.

A peculiar reproductive cell found in some fungi.

Reproductive.

To have a strong sexual impulse at the reproductive period; -- said of deer, cattle, etc.

act as floats or as swimming organs, others as feeding or nutritive zooids, and others as reproductive zooids. See Illust. under Physallia, and Porpita.

riad of Hindoo gods. He is the avenger or destroyer, and in modern worship symbolizes the reproductive power of nature.

A small sac connected with the female reproductive organs of insects and many other invertebrates, serving to receive and retain the spermatozoa.

y, formed in certain organisms, and by germination giving rise to a new organism; as, the reproductive spores of bacteria, etc.

A hydrozoan reproductive zooid or gonophore which does not become medusoid in form or structure. See Illust. under Athecata.

Free from reproductive spores or germs; as, a sterile fluid.

One of innumerable minute, motile, reproductive bodies, produced asexually by certain algæ and fungi; a zoöspore.

The nutritive zooids of a hydroid, collectively, as distinguished from the gonosome, or reproductive zooids.