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Webster 1913 Edition


Trophosome

Troph′o-some

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Noun.
[Gr. [GREEK] a feeder +
-some
body.]
(Zool.)
The nutritive zooids of a hydroid, collectively, as distinguished from the gonosome, or reproductive zooids.

Definition 2024


trophosome

trophosome

English

Noun

trophosome (plural trophosomes)

  1. (biology) The group of nutritive zooids of a hydrozoan
  2. (biology) The mass of chemolithoautotrophic bacteria in a pogonophoran that metabolizes sulfide