zoo-comb. form

1962 E. S. Wing Succession Mammalian Faunas Trinidad (Ph.D. diss., Univ. of Florida) Introd. 2 Because of its dynamic geological history and attendant climatic and vegetational changes, Trinidad, West Indies, is of considerable zooarcheological interest.

1982 Practising Anthropol. 4 20/4 We can now present types of data (and conclusions) unheard of in the not too distant past; e.g., calculating biomass and caloric intake of human populations from zooarchaeological remains.

2016 South Yorks. Times (Nexis) 11 May The subject they were given was reconstructing ancient diets using zooarchaeological techniques.

1957 C. A. Reed in Identification Non-artifactual Archaeol. Materials (National Acad. Sci.-National Res. Council (U.S.)) 43/1 The first deals with my experiences as a zoo-archaeologist in southwestern Asia.

1987 Science 6 Nov. 833/2 Animal remains come from many different kinds of sites, which present the zooarcheologist with varied problems.

2014 Current World Archaeol. Feb. 31/1 At first glance, Alison Carnell, zooarchaeologist with the team, thought it was the metacarpal bone of a European lynx.

1967 Current Anthropol. 8 598/1 Animal hist., zoo-archaeology.

1972 Science 20 Oct. 297/2 Recently the Atlas of Animal Bones by Elisabeth Schmid has become available for research workers in zooarcheology.

1985 Times Lit. Suppl. 7 June 646/1 Taphonomy..has..only recently become an integral part of zoo-archaeology (or, as the subject of faunal analysis is more usually called in Europe, archaeo-zoology).

2006 C. Stringer Homo Britannicus App. 292/2 On one dig, in Jordan, the animal bone specialist Paul Croft got me interested in zooarchaeology.

1923 Glasgow Herald 19 Mar. 6 [Mr James Chumley] continued his discussion of the animals of the ocean and dealt with the bottom-living fauna, or zoobenthos.

1964 Oceanogr. & Marine Biol. 2 127 (caption) Other organisms listed include zooplankton, phytobenthos, zoobenthos, and fishes.

2015 R. Darnell Amer. Sea x. 158 The zoobenthos is often differentiated on the basis of feeding types.

1824 Monthly Rev. 105 App. 495 We find..a very abbreviated notice of Zoocarps, or animated germs of certain non-descript Algæ,..on such a curious and mysterious subject, we could have welcomed a little more specialty.

1843 Penny Cycl. XXVII. 804 Zoocarpes, the name given to certain organized bodies which have been variously classed..as animals or plants... It is in the lower forms [of Algæ] more particularly that the Zoocarps occur.

1888 Cassell's Encycl. Dict. VII. ii. 632/3 Zoocarp, a zoospore.

1881–2 W. Saville-Kent Man. Infusoria II. 874 Zoocaulon..title conferred by the author on the erect tentaculiferous branching colony-stocks of the genus Dendrosoma.

1963 I. F. Henderson & W. D. Henderson Dict. Biol. Terms (ed. 8) 635/2 Zoocaulon, zoodendrium.

1882 Trans. Anthropol. Soc. Washington 1879–82 1 93 In later times a few of this school have expanded their scheme to embrace the animal world in general, rendering it zoöcentric instead of anthropocentric.

1977 J. L. Harper Population Biol. Plants 433 Virtually all of the work reported is that of zoologists and the research is zoocentric.

2001 Nature 26 July 375/3 You are showing your zoocentric side with your description... This sort of arrangement is not so rare among plants.

1844 Brit. & Foreign Med. Rev. 17 426 We have a detailed account of the proximate elements which occur in Zoochemical inquiries.

1880 Pharmacist 13 279 The pharmacist or physician who wishes to know the general properties of these zoochemical compounds.

1932 Jrnl. Amer. Pharmaceut. Assoc. 21 360 Biochemists of to-day are utilizing their physico-chemical training in the study of phytochemical as well as zoöchemical kinetics.

1997 K. W. Rychlik & C. G. Greenwald in M. Yalpani New Technol. for Healthy Foods & Nutraceuticals ii. 19 Chemical entities, such as phytochemicals and zoochemicals derived from edible plants and animal products.

2014 C. Byrd-Bredbenner et al. Perspectives in Nutrition i. 9 Some phytochemicals and zoochemicals also have been linked to a reduced risk of cardiovascular disease.

1835 Q. Jrnl. Educ. 10 225 Chemistry, pharmacy, and zoochemistry; two courses per semester.

1898 J. W. Powell Truth & Error 80 The animal organism is a chemical laboratory engaged..in building up more complex substances and tearing them down.., and this is metabolism, or zoöchemistry.

1967 Arctic 20 139/2 Graduate students are currently enrolled in research programs towards the Ph.D. in zoophysiology, zoochemistry, human ecology and biomathematics.

2013 D. McCance Crit. Animal Stud. vi. 71 Various ‘zoo’ sciences, such as..zoochemistry (the biochemistry of solids and fluids in animal bodies).

1899 Amer. Anthropologist 1 303 Agricultural and zoöcultural industries.

1913 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 18 830 A few paragraphs are given to the agricultural, zoöcultural, and forest resources.

2002 B. J. Collins Hist. Animal World in Anc. Near East xvii. 457 The evidence for the history of the ‘zoocultural’ sphere is recorded in text and art, but a direct approach..goes through the primary physical evidence..the bones preserved in archaeological sites.

1873 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 31 May 620/1 They are not attained by the evasion of any of the difficulties of marine zoo-culture.

1900 Ann. Rep. Smithsonian Inst. 65 That condition of toleration between animals and men which normally precedes domestication, and forms the first step in zooculture.

1991 Sewanee Rev. 99 252 Western colleges of agriculture, or rather zooculture.

2015 Aquaculture 443 38/2 The authors would like to thank Y. Hébert, C. Roussel..and C. Mercier for their technical assistance in zooculture.

?1819 S. T. Coleridge Let. Oct. (1959) IV. 956 I cherish..a pet system, a bye blow of my own Philosophizing; but it is so unlike to all the opinions and modes of reasoning grounded on the atomic, Corpuscular and mechanic Philosophy,..that I must content myself with caressing the heretical Brat in private—under the name of the Zöodynamic Method—or the Doctrine of Life.

1852 Z. Allen Philos. Mech. Nature 162 There is a wide distinction between a purely chemical process..and the process of effecting organic transformations by the vital, or zoodynamic agency.

1866 Trans. N.Y. State Agric. Soc. 1865 25 199 Urea, ammonia, carbonic acid—products of zoodynamic action—are incapable of being employed to repair the living tissues of animals.

2014 E. J. Jones Coleridge & Philos. of Poetic Form ii. 57 An essential continuity between Coleridge's poetic practice and his eclectic late theory of ‘zoo-dynamic’ form.

1888 Encycl. Brit. XXIV. 803 Zoo-Dynamics, Zoo-Physics, Zoo-Chemistry.

1903 Proc. Minnesota Educ. Assoc. 104 The student..should know something of..zoodynamics, or animal physiology.

1995 E. M. Barrows Animal Behavior Desk Ref. 553/2 Animal physiology, zoodynamics, zoonomy, physiology of animals.

1871 H. Watts tr. L. Gmelin Hand-bk. Chem. XVIII. 419 Colouring matters may be extracted, and among these the yellow, red, lilac, and green (zoofulvin, zooerythrin, zooverdin), are soluble in ether and alcohol.

1960 B. Rensch Evol. above Species Level iii. 34 In the one extreme race..zooerythrin is totally lacking, while in the other extreme this red pigment is so intense that it bars all green and yellow shades.

2012 A. Lima-de-Faria Molecular Geom. Body Pattern Birds ii. 11/1 This group of birds harbours unusually bright, non-carotenoid feather pigments which..differ from the widely distributed carotenoids (zooerythrin and xanthoerythrin).

1871 H. Watts tr. L. Gmelin Hand-bk. Chem. XVIII. 419 Colouring matters may be extracted, and among these the yellow, red, lilac, and green (zoofulvin, zooerythrin, zooverdin), are soluble in ether and alcohol.

1910 Zoologist 14 469 Green is formed by a combination of zoofulvin and melanin, as in the Green Woodpecker.

1950 E. A. Braude tr. P. Karrer & E. Jucker Carotenoids ix. 93 Zoofulvin has been identified with xanthophyll.

1879 Jrnl. Royal Microsc. Soc. 2 935 A connecting link between the conjugation of similar zoospores (zoogametes), and the impregnation of a passive oosphere by mobile antheroids.

1956 Bot. Rev. 22 318 Many river algae produce zoospores or zoogametes.

2003 J. H. Burnett Fungal Populations & Species vii. 137/1 The pheromone..elicits no response in..female zoogametes.

1841 E. Forbes in Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 6 241 (title) Zoo-geological considerations on the freshwater Mollusca.

1883 Kansas City Rev. Sci. & Industry 6 134 At this stage in the zoö-geological scale..the line of the bony fishes branched off, while the upward line developed into the twelfth stage, called Dipneusta.

1997 Bull. Ecol. Soc. Amer. 78 39/2 Zoogeological explanations are given for the relatively depauperate fauna present today.

1844 Rep. 13th Meeting Brit. Assoc. Advancem. Sci. 1843 178 Similar considerations respecting the other regions in depth must occur to the zoo-geologist.

1861 A. Geikie Mem. E. Forbes xv. 537 It is mainly as a zoo-geologist or palæontologist that he will take rank.

1979 Jrnl. Hist. Biol. 12 336 The attentive ‘zoo-geologist’ might deduce the probable depth zone in which the assemblage had originally lived.

1838 C. M. Burnett Power, Wisdom, & Goodness of God p. v A science which..owes the greater part of its general propositions to comparative anatomy and conchology, might more properly be called Zoogeology.

1861 A. Geikie Mem. E. Forbes xv. 536 The transition from these fields of inquiry to that of palæontology or zoo-geology.

1977 Q. Rev. Biol. 52 308/1 Instead of taking the customary approaches, oriented toward ecology or zoogeology, the contributors to these volumes view deep-sea animals as representatives of a unique fauna adapted to conditions..reproduced nowhere else.

1857 Trans. Microsc. Soc. 5 94 Zoogonidia, which become united after a motile stage, and grow into immotile cells.

1872 H. C. Wood Contrib. Hist. Freshwater Algæ 99 Non-sexual propagation taking place by means of motile gonidia (..by some called zoogonidia).

1936 A. H. S. Lucas Seaweeds S. Austral. 32 Zoogonidia very numerous, biciliate.

1824 S. T. Coleridge Coll. Lett. (1971) V. 350 I felt a vehement impulse to try Zoo-magnetism, i.e. to try my hand at a resurrection.

a1834 S. T. Coleridge Shorter Wks. & Fragm. (1995) II. ii. 911 Imposture may indeed be grafted on Zoomagnetism.

1864 T. Shorter Two Worlds 19 Familiar with zoo-magnetism and clairvoyance.

1914 H. Holt On Cosmic Relations I. ii. i. ix. 140 He says that the [dowsing] rod is moved by involuntary muscular contraction. I guess that it is moved by zoömagnetism.

2004 H. J. Jackson in S. McNeilly In search Absolute 9 He [sc. Coleridge] found a ready physiological explanation for Swedenborg's experiences in new theories of mesmerism (also known as animal magnetism or zoomagnetism).

1888 H. P. Blavatsky Secret Doctr. I. i. ii. vi. 362 Why should so many generations have believed in divination by birds, and even in zoomancy.

1912 J. J. M. de Groot Relig. in China vii. 275 Official zoömancy and orniscopy have, of course, always consisted principally in observation and study of aberrations of animals from their common habits and shapes.

2001 D. Carlyon Dan Rice 101 Rice listed sixty-seven varieties, from divination by air, or Aeromancy..and Zoomancy (living creatures).

1807 Literary Panorama July 787/1 So wedded were the romanists to this zoo-mania, that the sculptures of the churches..bore signs of the prevailing taste.

1841 H. Smith Moneyed Man xxi That attachment to birds and animals..has afforded me no little..solace, though you have sometimes been pleased to term it a zoo-mania.

1979 Winnipeg Free Press 14 Apr. 23 Gerald Durrell has had zoomania since he was 2.

1990 Jrnl. Tribune (Biddeford, Maine) 27 Feb. 17/2 These compulsive animal collectors suffer from what I call zoomania.

1861 F. Hall in Jrnl. Asiatic Soc. Bengal 1861 (1862) 30 198 (note) Vasantáraja Bhatta, the zoomantist.

1897 Nat. Sci. June 412 Roux claims that zoomechanical methods are of primary importance.

1888 Encycl. Brit. XXIV. 814/2 (heading) Zoo-mechanics, zoo-physics, zoo-chemistry.

1897 Nat. Sci. June 412 To tack on the word ‘mechanics’ to zoology and re-christen it ‘zoomechanics’ in a general philosophical sense is not to create a new science.

1903 Jrnl. Malacology 10 113 The whole phenomenon of Ampullarian locomotion..suggest a series of problems in zoo-mechanics which need thorough investigation.

1858 National Mag. 4 128/1 M. Bogdanow surmises that the zoomelanine, or black pigment, may be identical with melanine, or black colouring-matter found in the choroid membrane.

1900 Victorian Naturalist 16 160 Such a specimen shows the complete absence of the pigment known as ‘zoomelanin’, and..the appearance is white.

1952 Laurens (Iowa) Sun 25 Sept. Zoomelanin—the black pigment found in the feathers of many birds.

1892 Nature 17 Mar. 458/1 The nineteenth chapter is devoted to the zoometric characters related to the adaptations of the limbs for prehension and locomotion.

1994 Amer. Antiq. 59 506 This statistical approach may also be useful in the evaluation of anthropometric and zoometric data.

2014 D. R. Hodgson et al. Athletic Horse (ed. 2) xii. 259/2 Molina..reported a medium to high heritability of seven zoometric properties in Spanish Purebred horses.

1878 R. T. H. Bartley tr. P. Topinard Anthropol. ii. 81 Osteometry itself is only a part of what should be called zoometry [Fr. la zoométrie].

1903 Jrnl. Anthropol. Instit. Great Brit. & Ireland 33 39 Zoometry is in the future to be looked on as a valuable helpmate to anthropometry.

2002 Jrnl. Vet. Emergency & Crit. Care 12 156/1 Zoometry is less frequently used in animals.

1889 Nature 5 Dec. 99/2 Their zoo-mythic conceptions of their divinities.

1993 D. S. Brose in J. K. Johnson Devel. Southeastern Archaeol. i. 3 Some earthworks..seemed to have been created to realize Platonic or zoomythic ideals.

1882 Bull. Nuttall Ornithol. Club 7 115 Zoönerythrin, another red pigment of much wider distribution, is found in red feathers.

1883 Ann. Rep. Board Regents Smithsonian Inst. 1881 476 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (47th Congr., 1st Sess.: Senate Misc. Doc. 109) II Three different substances have been found in the red and yellow feathers of birds, to which have been given the names Turacin, Zoonerythrin, and Zoofuloin.

a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) I. xi. 226 The lobster has a second pigment, quite apart from zoönerythrin.

1860 R. G. Mayne Expos. Lexicon Med. Sci. 1353/1 Zöonosologist, name for him who studies specially the diseases of cattle, or zöonosology.

1988 Jrnl. Compar. Pathol. 98 137 He can be justly acclaimed as the first scientific ‘zoonosologist’.

2008 P. Young Lee Meat, Modernity, & Rise of Slaughterhouse ii. v. 99 The abattoir clearly intensified this process, providing the curious zoonosologist..with a seemingly limitless supply of anatomical eccentricities.

1845 S. Palmer Pentaglot Dict. 650/1 Zoonosologie, zoonosology.

1860 R. G. Mayne Expos. Lexicon Med. Sci. 1353/1 Zoonosologia, term for the doctrine or nature of diseases among cattle: zöonosology.

1979 C. E. Yunker et al. in E. Kurstak Arctic & Trop. Arboviruses 227 The implications of this for zoonosology, epidemiology, and control of arboviral disease are obvious.

1821 S. T. Coleridge Lett. (1895) II. 712 Vital or zoo-organic power, instinct and understanding, fall all three under the same definition in genere.

1856 J. G. Macvicar Elements Econ. Nature (ed. 2) xvii. 104 (heading) The Elementary Symmetry of Zoo-organic Forms.

c1890 J. Coates How to Mesmerise iii. 37 There is a subtle life-force in mankind and in animals to which the term Zoo-Organic or Animal Magnetism..has been used to distinguish.

1898 Announcem. N.Y. State Vet. College 1898–9 30 The special value of the course lies in its wide scope.., the aim being not to make students hippo-pathologists only, but zoöpathologists.

1936 N.Y. Times 3 Jan. 18/4 It is the season of the year when in the principal hotel lobbies of the United States it would be impossible to throw a brick without hitting an archaeologist or..a sociologist or a zoopathologist.

1991 T. I. Ulyankina in P.-A. Cazenave & G. P. Talwar Immunology: Pasteur's Heritage iv. 38 The development of a vaccine against Siberian plague..interested first and foremost Russian cattle-dealers, veterinarians, and zoopathologists.

1841 Veterinarian May 241 (heading) Hugh Ferguson.., Lecturer on Zootomy, Zoopathology, and the Principles and Practice of Veterinary Surgery.

1884 W. Williams Princ. & Pract. Vet. Med. (ed. 4) 4 Pathology, or more properly, when applied to the lower animals, Zoo-Pathology.

1959 Systematic Zool. 8 28/1 Human and veterinary medicine,..zoopathology,..and many other fields and disciplines.

2016 N. Cowan Peregrine Spring xxxii. 218 Dutton took photos and sample tissue. It was all sent off to the zoo-pathology laboratory.

1888 Amer. Jrnl. Psychol. 1 356 Zoophobia was so intense that the sight of hens, cats, etc., caused pallor, tremor, etc.

1901 Amer. Anthropologist 3 12 Experience of superior faculty awakens consciousness of superior power..and rends the shackles of zoöphobia.

2015 Northlines (New Delhi, India) (Nexis) 2 Oct. The tabby kitten was a quivering mass of fur and bones when my mother scooped her up from the roadside and brought her home. My sister, with her zoophobia, promptly locked herself inside the kitchen.

1820 S. T. Coleridge Marginalia (2000) V. 176 It [sc. Christian faith] is the Physics of the Moral Being no less than it is the Morale of the zoo-physical.

1863 London Q. Rev. Oct. 51 In certain rare instances persons are found in an abnormal physical or zoo-physical condition; the unknown force may possible be magnetic, which emanates from them.

1868 St. George's Hosp. Rep. 3 397 The pathology of that amazing zoophysical apparatus [sc. the eye] is necessarily bound to the mathematical physiology of light.

1907 Bull. Amer. Geogr. Soc. 39 506 Particular interest attaches to their tectonic and zoöphysical studies of the growth of Celebes in the Miocene and Pliocene epochs.

1978 Sel. Water Resources Abstr. (U.S. Office of Water Research & Technol.) Organizational Index 126/3 Kiel Univ. (West Germany). Zoophysical lab.

1887 E. Marwedel Conscious Motherhood ii. xix. 552 Prof. Thierry William Preyer..joined the university at Bonn, in 1865, as lecturer in zoochemistry and zoophysics.

1999 Jrnl. Hist. Biol. 32 469 He listed bionomics as one of the five branches of zoological study, along with morphography; zoo-dynamics, zoo-physics, and zoo-chemistry.

1803 Agric. Mag. Mar. 215 The second [sc. volume, of a German work by F. Pilger] contains the zootomy and zoophysiology.

1865 Nat. Hist. Rev. July 352 [Zoology] divides itself into many..branches, amongst which we indicate..Zoophysiology, or the science of the functions of the organs.

1967 Arctic 20 139/2 Graduate students are currently enrolled in research programs towards the Ph.D. in zoophysiology.

2010 Wilson Jrnl. Ornithol. 122 819/1 West is a Professor Emeritus of Zoophysiology at the University of Alaska.

1972 Science 11 Feb. 641/1 Species higher in the food chain alter the effectiveness of zooplanktivores.

1993 G. S. Helfman in T. J. Pitcher Behaviour Teleost Fishes (ed. 2) xiv. 487 Zooplanktivores..have also evolved visual capabilities that permit..sensitive detection of motion of prey or predators.

2005 Écoscience 12 11 Muriel Lake contains a substantial population of the invertebrate zooplanktivore Neomysis mercedis.

1971 Jrnl. Zool. 165 412 The zooplanktivorous fish Alestes baremose.

1997 G. S. Helfman et al. Diversity of Fishes xxiii. 421/2 The larva is also likely to get eaten by the zooplanktivorous predators that abound on reefs.

2001 Oikos 95 320/1 Fish adapted to zooplanktivorous feeding [have]..a slender body and a small terminal mouth.

1935 P. S. Welch Limnology ix. 249 The determination of the food of zooplankters can be approached in two ways.

1992 Oecologia 92 48/2 Daphnia, a small..freshwater crustacean zooplankter, is a generalist herbivore.

2008 S. L. Woodward Marine Biomes i. 30 Typically, zooplankters will spend the daylight hours in deeper water and rise toward the surface at dusk.

1847 H. E. Lloyd & B. G. Babington tr. E. von Feuchtersleben Princ. Med. Psychol. 19 The study of animal psychology (zoo-psychology [Ger. Zoo-psychologie], comparative psychology).

1931 Bks. Abroad 5 180/1 Koshkarov submits in this volume a serious and thoroughgoing study of scientific experiments and investigations to date in the field of zoopsychology.

1992 Folia Biologica 40 1 From..1976-1986 [he was] head of the Department of Zoopsychology and Animal Ethology.

2000 Biogr. Dict. Women in Sci. II. 733/1 Ladygina's work demonstrated differences and similarities in the psychology of humans and animals and added to knowledge of zoopsychology.

1817 J. Bentham Chrestomathia Pt. II 189 Zooscopic or Zoologic Physiurgics.

1890 Science 15 43 This condition of zoöscopic hallucination is one of the commonest among the phenomena of alcohol poisoning.

1991 N. S. Miller Pharmacol. Alcohol vii. 80 The visual hallucinations..are typically, as in delirium tremens, zooscopic in type with animals being visualized, often insects or rodents or snakes.

1891 Cent. Dict. Zoöscopy, a kind of hallucination in which imaginary animal forms are perceived.

1933 H. Devine Recent Adv. Psychiatry (ed. 2) vi. 86 He was a chronic drinker, but had hitherto only exhibited the minor mental symptoms of alcoholism—nightmares, nocturnal zooscopy and neurasthenia.

2013 P. Hoare Sea Inside ii. 89 Rational thought might ascribe these scenes—for which there is a term, zooscopy, a form of mental delusion in which the sufferer sees imaginary animals—to isolation and malnutrition.

1898 W. J. McGee Seri Indians in 17th Ann. Rep. Bureau Amer. Ethnol. 1895–6 I. 169 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (55th Congr., 3rd Sess.: House of Representatives Doc. 316 Pt. 1) XCIV The Seri face-painting would seem to be essentially zoosematic.

1909 Cent. Dict. Suppl. Zoösematic, symbolizing animals.

1963 T. A. Sebeok in Language 39 465 The term zoosemiotics—constructed in an exchange between Rulon Wells and me—is proposed for the discipline, within which the science of signs intersects with ethology, devoted to the scientific study of signaling behavior in and across animal species.

1978 New Yorker 17 Apr. 78 In a collection of papers written by various experts in the field of..‘zoosemiotics’—in other words, animal communication—each writer tries valiantly to define what he means by the term.

2011 T. Maran et al. Readings in Zoosemiotics 1 Zoosemiotics also studies the ways animals make sense of their environment and other animals.

1662 J. Chandler tr. J. B. van Helmont Oriatrike 163 The other Son..noted the properties and Societies of living Creatures; whence by the undoubted hope of a Flock, a quiet life is led: This indeed, was Zoosophie [L. zoosophia] or the wisdom of keeping living Creatures together.

1847 A. Tulk tr. L. Oken Elements Physiophilos. 3 Biology, therefore, divides into Organogeny, Phytosophy and Zoosophy [Ger. Zoosophie].

1848 J. B. Stallo Philos. of Nature 231 Zoösophy, inquiring into the development of animals.

1845 J. Bell in W. Stokes & J. Bell Lect. Theory & Pract. Physic (ed. 3) I. lxvi. 691 We cannot always or often procure from the poor patient recent semen, and of course are deprived of the test of zoospermatic movements.

1879 Jrnl. Royal Microsc. Soc. 2 73 The presence of corpuscles of a zoospermatic nature in Spongilla appeared..to establish as an assured fact the existence of a sexual differentiation in the sponges.

1833 London Med. & Surg. Jrnl. 2 568/1 Likewise in my zootaxy, I [sc. de Blainville] have still more frequently entered on the domains of natural history.

1860 Jrnl. Psychol. Med. & Mental Pathol. 13 589 A naturalist who..would apply purely and simply to the human genus the general principles of zootaxy, would then be led to divide this genus into several species.

1920 Rec. Indian Museum 20 2 The time has come to rid ourselves of the empirical methods which have necessarily prevailed so long in zootaxy.

1970 Acta Biologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 21 138 The..chapter discusses—within the frame of evolutionary zootaxy—..the principal taxonomical categories of the animal kingdom.

1861 15th Ann. Rep. Ohio State Board Agric. 1860 293 The race comes out fixed, constant, and constitutes a ‘zootechnic race’.

1899 O. T. Mason in Amer. Anthropologist 1 46 The industries of the American aborigines, in connection with..animal life.., may be divided into zoötechnic provinces.

1918 Science 25 Oct. 416/2 The zoo-technic stations are obliged to possess..200 hectares.

2012 S. J. McPhail et al. Fuel Cells 82 Germany..had the greatest impulse, particularly in the animal farming (zootechnic) field.

1863 Anthropol. Rev. 1 303 The application of the facts furnished by zootechnics, namely, the examples of the races of domestic animals to the study of general anthropology.

1900 tr. J. Deniker Races of Man (ed. 2) Introd. 4 [In] the genus Homo..one can neither speak of the ‘species’, the ‘variety’, nor the ‘race’ in the sense that is usually attributed to these words in zoology or in zootechnics.

2007 Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia 63 672 Darwin's concept of evolution as natural selection was extrapolated from the zootechnics of horses.

1841 R. Park Pantology 31 The names of these sciences..Agriculture;..Zoology;..Zootechny.

1902 Science 20 June 997/2 Breeders..will contribute live stock for..courses in zootechny and animal breeding.

2010 G. Lorenzini et al. Solar Thermal & Bio-mass 180 The main by-product of the vegetable oil extraction..is used in zootechny as animal feeds.

1852 J. H. Balfour Class Bk. Bot. I. iv. 349 (caption) Antheridium, or Zootheca of a Sea-weed (Fucus serratus), containing phytozoa.

1861 R. Bentley Man. Bot. i. v. 376 The antheridium..is filled at maturity with a number of minute cells, which have been termed zoothecæ.

1908 H. Osborn Econ. Zool. iii. 50 Where the individual zoid is included in a hard covering, this may be known as zootheca.

2016 T. N. Molodtsova et al. in S. Goffredo & Z. Dubinsky Cnidaria, Past, Present & Future xxv. 403/2 When the juveniles reach about 1 mm, they leave the zootheca and start building a mucus tube attached to the main stem of the hydroid colony.

1880–1 W. Saville-Kent Man. Infusoria I. 61 For these aggregations of..simple loricæ the distinctive title of zoöthecia has been adopted.

1895 19th Ann. Rep. Boston Water Board 1894–5 77 Social, forming a compound branching zoothecium. Genus Dinobryon.

1963 I. F. Henderson & W. D. Henderson Dict. Biol. Terms (ed. 8) 637/2 Zoothecium, zoocytium.

1879 J. W. Powell in Pop. Sci. Monthly Oct. 805 Let us call this stage zoötheism, when men worship beasts.

1901 Science 22 Mar. 459/1 Anthropologists have grouped the myths and faiths of mankind..ascending..through higher zootheism and broadening worship of nature-powers.

2006 W. Nelson & T. Pipkin Tao of Willie 31 The religion of the Cherokees..is a mix of zootheism, or animal worship, combined with the worship of all tangible things including the sun, the moon, and the stars.

1879 Pop. Sci. Monthly Oct. 805 Many of the Indians of North America, and many of South America, and many of the tribes of Africa, are found to be zootheists.

1896 A. H. Keane Ethnology i. i. 11 Palaeolithic man for instance, was certainly not a ‘zootheist’, or a ‘theist’ of any kind.

2000 H. Middleton Bright Country 115 ‘I said it to everyone,’ said Bill, ‘to monotheists, polytheists, cosmotheists, henotheists, zootheists.’

1879 Pop. Sci. Monthly Oct. 807 There are fragments of philosophy discovered which are not zoötheistic.

1901 Science 22 Mar. 457/2 Magical powers are imputed by dominating zootheistic faith.

2004 Geogr. Rev. 94 261 The author describes for the fourth century B.C. a zootheistic relationship between people and sacred apes in North Africa.

1872 J. D. Dana Corals & Coral Islands i. 48 The compound mass produced by budding..was called..a Zoöphyte. As a substitute the term Zoöthome may be employed.

1882 Amer. Monthly Microsc. Jrnl. 3 221/1 The beauty of a fine zoothome (that is, a number of coral polyps on a branch of coral), fully expanded.., is almost indescribable.

1963 I. F. Henderson & W. D. Henderson Dict. Biol. Terms (ed. 8) 637/2 Zoothome, any group of individuals in a living coral.

1906 H. T. Ricketts Infection, Immunity & Serum Therapy ii. 268 (heading) Other zootoxins.

1988 B. W. Halstead & J. M. Vinci in A. T. Tu Handbk. Nat. Toxins III. i. 2 Biotoxins are of two major types: phytotoxins, or plant poisons, and zootoxins, or animal poisons.

2015 E. M. El-Masry & M. B. Abou-Donia in M. B. Abou-Donia Mammalian Toxicol. xxvii. 633 Snake venom is a highly modified saliva containing zootoxins.

1883 G. Massey Nat. Genesis II. 325 The four zoötypes of the four elements..the crocodile of earth ; the phœnix of the solar fire ; the ape of air ; and the fish or hippopotamus of the waters.

1972 Central Asiatic Jrnl. 16 14 The zootype was depicted..with muscular body, bristling fur, lean and flat head, baring its fangs into a snarl.

1993 J. M. W. Slack et al. in Nature 11 Feb. 490/1 We propose that an animal is an organism that displays a particular spatial pattern of gene expression, and we define this pattern as the zootype.

2000 Systematic Biol. 49 9/2 The zootype is the point in development when genes specifying relative positions, such as Hox genes, are being expressed.

1853 Brief & Compl. Refut. Anti-scriptural Theory Geologists 7 The Almighty has made a great proportion of the earth to consist of zootypic structures, but they were created, not propagated structures.

1897 Ann. Rep. Smithsonian Inst. 454 Out of this worm-form type..all the higher ranges of zootypic evolution have sprung.

1994 Science 28 Oct. 581/3 It has been suggested that the stage at which HOM/Hox genes establish body pattern represents a zootypic stage for animals of many different phyla.

2003 G. Scholtz Evolutionary Developmental Biol. Crustacea Introd. 12 The evolutionary freedom of all developmental stages including early ones falsifies laws or rules..about..the concepts of phylotypic or zootypic stages.

1868 H. Watts Dict. Chem. V. 1085 Zooxanthin, the colouring-matter of the red feathers of Calurus auriceps.

1937 Auk 54 422 This appearance is a characteristic of the yellow zooxanthin of these birds.

2014 L. M. Botana Seafood & Freshwater Toxins iv. 84 Nonpeptidic toxins have been identified,..as well as compounds related to pigments (i.e., zooxanthin).

1880 Q. Jrnl. Microsc. Sci. 20 418 In the proposed system..Strasburger's ‘zoogametes’ or ‘planogametes’ must enjoy the somewhat cumbrous name of ‘zoozygospheres’.

1963 I. F. Henderson & W. D. Henderson Dict. Biol. Terms (ed. 8) 637/2 Zoozygosphere, planogamete.