Trophosome

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Trophosome \Troph"o*some\, n. [Gr. ? a feeder + -some body.]
     (Zool.)
     The nutritive zooids of a hydroid, collectively, as
     distinguished from the gonosome, or reproductive zooids.
     [1913 Webster]