||Zo`ö*glœ"a (?), n. [NL.,
from Gr. zw^,on an animal + ? any glutinous substance.]
(Biol.) A colony or mass of bacteria imbedded in a viscous
gelatinous substance. The zoöglœa is characteristic of a
transitory stage through which rapidly multiplying bacteria pass in
the course of their evolution. Also used adjectively.