| 单词 | polyzoic |
| 释义 | polyzoic in British English (ˌpɒlɪˈzəʊɪk) adjective zoology 1. (of certain colonial animals) having many zooids or similar polyps 2. producing or containing many sporozoites polyzoic in American English (ˌpɑliˈzouɪk) adjective 1. (of a bryozoan colony) composed of many zooids 2. (of a spore) producing many sporozoites 3. (of a habitat) containing many animals or many different kinds of animals Word origin [1850–55; poly- + zo- + -ic]This word is first recorded in the period 1850–55. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: boneyard, cloakroom, ethylene, heavyweight, overprintpoly- is a combining form with the meanings “much, many” and, in chemistry, “polymeric,”used in the formation of compound words. Other words that use the affix poly- include: polyandrous, polyculture, polyethylene; -ic is a suffix forming adjectives from other parts of speech, occurring originally inGreek and Latin loanwords (metallic; poetic; archaic; public) and, on this model, used as an adjective-forming suffix with the particular senses“having some characteristics of” (opposed to the simple attributive use of the basenoun) (balletic; sophomoric); “in the style of” (Byronic; Miltonic); “pertaining to a family of peoples or languages” (Finnic; Semitic; Turkic) |
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