Meaning of zoons | Babel Free

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Noun. [B1]

Examples

“There are plenty of examples in which such variations occur⟳ on the same stock⟳, and we think⟳ they prove⟳ that the accepted ideas of what constitutes an individual or person among the sponges with a thick mesoderm and branching gastrovascular canals are entirely erroneous and founded on the deceptive resemblances of the branches of a sponge to those of other compound forms, which really arise⟳ from true buds and are true zoöns. Haeckel and others have⟳ regarded all the vase-shaped sponges as single individuals or zoöns, but this seems untenable, except in the group of Ascones.”

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