zooid vs being

zooid and being both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
zooid	Yes	No	No	No
being	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, being is a hypernym of zooid; that is, being is a word with a broader meaning than zooid:

zooid: one of the distinct individuals forming a colonial animal such as a bryozoan or hydrozoan
being: a living thing that has (or can develop) the ability to act or function independently

Other hypernyms of zooid include organism.

zooid (noun)	being (noun)
one of the distinct individuals forming a colonial animal such as a bryozoan or hydrozoan	a living thing that has (or can develop) the ability to act or function independently
	the state or fact of existing