zoogeny (zoojeni)

[ IMG:content-2761.png:[blocks in formation] zoogeographic (zō-ō-je-ō-grafik), a. geograph - y +-ic.] Of or pertaining to zoögeography; faunist faunistic; chorological. zoogeographical (zō-ō-je-o-grafi-kal), a. [ represented in colors with almost the precision at tained in depicting civil or political boundaries. Zoögeography is related to paleontology as the distribution of animals in space is related to their succe ion in time; but the principles of zoögeography are of course as applicable to any former as to the present dispersion of species on the face of the globe. See province, 6, and region, 7. zoöglœa (zō-ō-glē'ä), n.; pl. zoöglææ (-ē). [NL., zoöglea Bacteria sometimes form a jelly-like ma a by the swelling up of their cell-membranes; this is the zooglœa stage. Be ey, Botany, p. 212. 2. A ma ing together of micro-organisms which occurs in a certain stage of their development, the collection being surrounded by a gelatinoid envelop. Liquids in which any of these Schizomycetes are actively developing themselves usually bear on their surface a gelatinous scum, which is termed by Prof. Cohn the Zoo gloœa . W. B. Carpenter , Micros., § 303.