go no zooid (go no zooid)

[ sexual zoöids of an ascidian. On this outgrowth the forms ( gonozoöids ) which become sexually mature are attached while still young buds, and after the foster forms are set free these reproductive forms gradually attain their complete development, and are eventually set free and lose all trace of their connexion with the foster forms. Encyc. Brit., XXIII. 615. gony (gō'ni), n.; pl. gonies (-niz). 1. A stupid person; a goose. [Prov. Eng. and U. S.] Formerly they poked sap-headed goneys into parliament, to play dummy. Nature and Human Nature , p. 142. 2. (a) The black-footed albatro , Diomedea ni gripes. (b) The young of the short-tailed albatro , D. brachyura . (c) Probably, some other very large dark pelagic bird, as the giant fulmar, O ifraga gigantea : a name in use among sailors in the northern Pacific. -gony. [L., NL., -gonia,