zoochemy

[ZOOCHEMISTRY.] zō-o-çyt-i-um ( pl. zō-o-çýt-1-a), s. [Pref. zoo-, and Gr.kytos a cell.] Biol.: The gelatinous matrix excreted and inhabited by various colonial Infusoria-e. g., Ophrydium, Phalansterium, . zōne'-le , a. [Eng. zone; -le .] Destitute of [Pref. zoo-, and Gr. dendron =a tree.] a zone or girdle; ungirded. "In carele folds loose fell her zonele vest." Mason: Isis. *zōn'-Ic, s . [Eng. zone; -ic.] A zone, a girdle, a belt. "The place where I was bred stands upon a zonicof coal."- Smollett : Travels , let. iv. zon-nar, s. [ZONAR.] zō-no-chlör-ite, s. [English zon ( e ); o connect., and chlorite.] Min.: The same as CHLORASTROLITE (q. v.). zō-no-trich-i-a, subst. [Gr.zōnē=a girdle, and trichias one that is hairy.] Ornith .: A genus of Fringillide, with nine species, ranging over the whole Nearctic and Neo tropical regions. Beak slightly conical, upper mandible straight and somewhat pointed; wings moderate, reaching as far as upper tail-coverts; tarsus high, toes long. zō-nu-lạ, s . (Lat.=a little girdle; dim in. from zona (q. v.).] Anat .: A small zone; as, the Zonula of Zinn, the anterior portion of the hyaloid membrane which is firmer and more fibrous than the rest. Called also the Suspensory Ligament of the Lens. (Quain.) zō-nu-lar, a. [Eng. zonul ( e ); -ar . ] 1. Ordinary Lang .: Of or relating to zone; zone shaped. 2. Zool.: Of or pertaining to that form of non deciduous placenta in which the fœtal villi are arrarged in a comparatively broad band. ( Glos sary to Huxley's Cla . of Animals.) zō-nule, s. [A dim in. from zone (q. v.).] A little zone, band, or belt. fate, făt, färe, amidst, what, fall, IMG:content-1132.png:[blocks in formation] zō-ô-gen, zō-o-gene, s. [ Gr.zoogenēs =born of an animal: pref. zoo-, and Gr. ge gennao to produce.] Chem. The same as ZOIODIN (q. v.). zō-ō-gen-ic, a. [Eng. zoögen(y); -ic.] Of or pertaining to animal production. zō-ög ěný, zō-og-on-ỹ, s. [Pref. zoo-, and Gr. genesis, gone generation.] Nat. Science : The doctrine of the formation of the organs of living beings. zō-ō-ģē-o-graph'-Ic-al, a. [Pref. zoo-, and Eng. geographical.] Of or pertaining to zoogeography (q. v.). "None of the great zoogeographical provinces are sharply defined from one another." Proc. Zool. Soc., 1868, p. 317. preceding individual by the proce of fi ion or gemmation. Specially applicable to the Infusoria and other Protozoa, and to the component members of all stock-building communities, such as Polypes, Corals, and Polyzoa. B. As adj.: Pertaining to or resembling an animal. zō-ol-a-trỹ, s. [Pref. zoo- , and Greek latreia = worship.] Compar. Relig .: Animal worship; adoration paid by man to any of the lower animals. This cultus seems to have pa ed through three stages: (1) The animal was reverenced and propitiated as po e ing a power greater than that of man; (2) the animal was regarded as an incarnation of some deity or spirit; (3) it was raised to the position of a tribal ancestor. [TOTEM.] In the early history of the human race zoolatry of some kind was very prevalent. Traces of it appear in the Bible, as in the story of the Golden Calf made by the Israeli tes (Exod. xxxii). Zoolatry took deep root in the religious life of the ancient Egyptians, and all three forms flourished among that people. Juvenal opens his fifteenth satire with a scathing invective of Egyptian zoolatry, and detailed accounts of it occur in Hero dot us (ii). Plutarch ( de Iside et Osi ride ), Strabo (lib. xvii.), and Cicero ( de Nat . Deor ., iii. 15). In cla ic times the chief form of zoolatry was serpent-worship (q. v.), though traces of other forms occur in the transformation myths of the poets. In the present day zoolatry survives chiefly in India [VISHNU, HUNOOMAN, ZEBUJ, among the snake-worshipers of the west coast of Africa, and the Red Indians of North America. "The three motives of animal-worship viz., direct worship of the animal for itself, indirect worship of it as a fetish acted through by a deity, and veneration of it as a totem or representative of a tribe-ancestor, no doubt account in no small measure for the phenomena of zoölatry among the lower races, due allowance being also made for the effects of myths and symbolisms, of which we may gain frequent glimpses." - Tylor: Prim . Cult . (ed. 1873), ii. 237. zō-o-lite, s. [Pref. zoo-, and Gr. lithos =a stone.] A fo il animal substance. zō-ol-o-ger, s. [Eng. zoolog(y); -er.] The same as ZOOLOGIST (q. v.). "As the naturalists may thus illustrate pathology as a chemist, so may he do the like as a zoologer." -Boyle: Works , ii. 84.