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Zo*ög"ra*pher (?), n. One who describes animals, their forms and habits.

{ Zo`ö*graph"ic (?), Zo`ö*graph"ic*al (?), } a. [Cf. F. zoographique.] Of or pertaining to the description of animals.

Zo*ög"ra*phist (?), n. A zoögrapher.

Zo*ög"ra*phy (?), n. [Zoö- + -graphy: cf. F. zoographie.] A description of animals, their forms and habits.

Zo"oid (?), a. [Zoö- + - oid.] (Biol.) Pertaining to, or resembling, an animal.

Zo"oid, n. 1. (Biol.) An organic body or cell having locomotion, as a spermatic cell or spermatozooid.

2. (Zoöl.) (a) An animal in one of its inferior stages of development, as one of the intermediate forms in alternate generation. (b) One of the individual animals in a composite group, as of Anthozoa, Hydroidea, and Bryozoa; -- sometimes restricted to those individuals in which the mouth and digestive organs are not developed.

Zo*oid"al (?), a. Of or pertaining to a zooid; as, a zooidal form.

Zo*öl"a*try (?), n. [Zoö- + Gr. &?; worship.] The worship of animals.

Zo*öl"o*ger (?), n. A zoölogist. Boyle.

Zo`ö*log"ic*al (?), a. [Cf. F. zoologique.] Of or pertaining to zoölogy, or the science of animals.

Zo`ö*log"ic*al*ly, adv. In a zoölogical manner; according to the principles of zoölogy.

Zo*öl"o*gist (?), n. [Cf. F. zoologiste.] One who is well versed in zoölogy.

Zo*öl"o*gy (?), n.; pl. Zoölogies (#). [Zoö- + - logy: cf. F. zoologie. See Zodiac.]

1. That part of biology which relates to the animal kingdom, including the structure, embryology, evolution, classification, habits, and distribution of all animals, both living and extinct.

2. A treatise on this science.

Zo`ö*mel"a*nin (?), n. [Zoö- + melanin.] (Physiol. Chem.) A pigment giving the black color to the feathers of many birds.

Zo`ö*mor"phic (?), a. [Zoö- + Gr. &?; form.] Of or pertaining to zoömorphism.

Zo`ö*mor"phism (?), n. 1. The transformation of men into beasts. [R.] Smart.

2. The quality of representing or using animal forms; as, zoömorphism in ornament.

3. The representation of God, or of gods, in the form, or with the attributes, of the lower animals.

To avoid the error of anthropomorphism, we fall into the vastly greater, and more absurd, error of zoömorphism.

Mivart.

||Zo"ön (?), n.; pl. Zoa (#). [NL., fr. Gr. zw^,on an animal.] (Zoöl.) (a) An animal which is the sole product of a single egg; -- opposed to zooid. H. Spencer. (b) Any one of the perfectly developed individuals of a compound animal.

Zo*ön"ic (?), a. [Gr. zw^,on an animal: cf. F. zoonique.] Of or pertaining to animals; obtained from animal substances.

Zo"ö*nite (?), n. (Zoöl.) (a) One of the segments of the body of an articulate animal. (b) One of the theoretic transverse divisions of any segmented animal.

Zo*ön"o*my (?), n. [Zoö- + Gr. &?; a law: cf. F. zoonomie.] The laws of animal life, or the science which treats of the phenomena of animal life, their causes and relations.

Zo"ö*nule (?), n. [Dim. fr. Gr. zw^,on an animal.] (Zoöl.) Same as Zoönite.