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Webster 1913 Edition
Zoogloea
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Zoˊo-gloe′a
,Noun.
[NL., from Gr.
ζῶ,ον
an animal + [GREEK] any glutinous substance.] (Biol.)
A colony or mass of bacteria imbedded in a viscous gelatinous substance. The zoogloea is characteristic of a transitory stage through which rapidly multiplying bacteria pass in the course of their evolution. Also used adjectively.