See Also: zooxanthella(medicine)
zooxanthella(dictionary)

zooxanthella (iou)



zooxanthella noun. . L19.
[mod. Latin, from ZOO- + XANTH(O- + Latin -ELLA.]
Any of numerous yellow-brown dinoflagellates present as symbionts in the cytoplasm of many marine invertebrates. Cf. ZOOCHLORELLA.