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‖ zoarium Zool.|zəʊˈɛərɪəm|
Pl. zoaria |-ɪə|.
[mod.L., in form ad. Gr. ζωάριον, dim. of ζῷον animal, but taken as if f. ζῷον + -arium: cf. polyzoary.]
The common supporting structure of a colony of polyps, or the colony or compound organism as a whole (esp. in the Polyzoa or moss-animalcules): = polyzoary. Hence zoˈarial a., pertaining to or constituting a zoarium.
1880W. Saville-Kent Infusoria I. 338 The zoarium of the polyzoic genera Aulopora or Hippothoa. 1896J. W. Gregory Catal. Fossil Bryozoa Introd. 16 In typical Diastopora the zoarium consists of two layers of zoœcia, one on each side of the zoarial lamina. |