marked with zones, as of color, texture, or the like
2.
arranged in zones
Also: zonated
Word origin
[1795–1805; zone + -ate1]This word is first recorded in the period 1795–1805. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: crunch, hopscotch, mirage, sharpshooter, wrecker-ate is a suffix occurring in loanwords from Latin, its English distribution parallelingthat of Latin. The form originated as a suffix added to a- stem verbs to form adjectives (separate). The resulting form could also be used independently as a noun (advocate) and came to be used as a stem on which a verb could be formed (separate; advocate; agitate). In English the use as a verbal suffix has been extended to stems of non-Latin origin(calibrate; acierate)
Examples of 'zonate' in a sentence
zonate
The pod lesions were initially circular and zonate, as the foliar spots, but the concentric circles are of little evidence.
Maria Aparecida de Souza Tanaka, Margarida Fumiko Ito, Christina Dudienas, ValdirAtsushi Yuki 1996, 'Ocorrência e sintomas da mancha de Ascochyta em feijão-vagem Occurrence and symptomsof Ascochyta blight on snap bean', Bragantiahttp://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0006-87051996000200009. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)