A singular individual member of a bryozoa colony; a single animal in the bryozoa phylum.
From 'bryozoa' plus the singular suffix '-zoon' (a single animal). This allows scientists to refer to one member of a bryozoan colony separately from the whole.
Each bryozoon is so tiny that you need a microscope to see it clearly, yet each one has a complete digestive system, nervous system, and feeding apparatus—it's like nature created microscopic robots that can link together into massive filtering cities.
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