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Biology prefixes and suffixes
-ase
myco- / -mycete
-phag-
phyto- / -phyte
-vor-
zoo- / -zoan
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Top - Introduction - Etymology - List of zoological terms beginning in zoo-
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
Other terms beginning in zoo- - See also - References

[edit] Introduction

The prefix zoo- is used primarily as ...; the main purpose of this article is to provide a single point of reference for these terms.

[edit] Etymology

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zoo:

Short for zoological gardens

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zooagglutinin: A substance found in animal venoms that causes agglutination (clumping together) of red blood cells.

zooanthella: An elongate larval form of Zoanthinaria with a ventral band of very long cilia.

zooanthellae: Cryptomonads symbiotic with certain marine protozoa.

zooanthina: An oval larval form of Zoanthinaria with a girdle of long cilia near the oral pole.

zooanthroponosis: An animal disease normally maintained by humans but which can be transmitted to other vertebrates; e.g., amebiasis to dogs, tuberculosis, etc.

zooapocrisis: The response of animals to their environmental conditions as a whole.

zooarchaeology: The study of animal remains from archaeological sites.

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zoobenthos, zoobenthic:

1. Those fauna living in or on the sea bed or lake floor. 2. Aquatic bottom-dwelling organisms, including such animals as the sponges, lobsters, and polychaete worms.

zoobiology:

A branch of biology that involves the scientific study of animals and all aspects of animal life.

zoobiosis:

The condition of a parasitic fungus that infests an animal.

zoobiotic:

Parasitic on an animal, as some fungi; living on or in an animal.

zooblast:

An animal cell.

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zoocenose:

An animal community.

zoochromes:

Biochromes acquired in the food that are metabolically handled and often modified.

zoocoenosis:

An animal community.

zoocole, zoocoline, zoocolous:

Living on animals; such as, fleas and/or ticks.

zooculture, zoocultural:

1. The cultivation (breeding and care) of animals for food or for biodiversity in the wild, zoological gardens, etc. 2. The genetics, breeding, nutrition, and housing of domesticated animals; animal husbandry; also, pecudiculture or "the raising, or rearing, of cattle".

zoocytium:

A gelatinous substance embedding masses of ciliated protozoa.

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zoodermic:

1. Performed with the skin of an animal; said of skin grafting in which the grafts are from the skin of an animal. 2. A reference to the skin of an animal.

zoodetritus:

Biodetritus (particles, fragments) produced by the disintegration and the decomposition of animal organisms (tissues and structures).

zoodomatia:

1. Plant structures acting as shelters (homes) for animals. 2. An animal community.

zoodynamics, zoodynmic:

1. The physiology of animals. 2. The qualities and functions of living organisms

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zooecium:

1. The stiffened body-wall which forms a cup-shaped capsule inclosing the tentacled polypide in the Polyzoa. 2. In colonial bryozoans, the body wall, a generally secreted gelatinous, chitinoid, or calcareous covering of individual zooids. 3. The skeleton of a zooid, composed of calcareous layers of zooidal walls and connected zooidal structures. 4. In Phylactolaemata, composed of any nonliving secreted parts of the body.

zooecology, zooecological:

The study of the relationships between animals and their environments; animal ecology.

zooerastia:

Bestiality.

zooerasty:

Sexual activity between a person and an animal.

zooerythrin:

A red pigment in bird feathers.

zooetic:

Of or pertaining to life.

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zooflagellate: Any of various flagellated protozoans of the subclass Zoomastigina, lacking plantlike chasracteristics. Flagellated refers to protozoa that possess moveable threadlike or whiplike structures, or flagellum; specifically, those protozoa having flagella (plural of flagellum) or long, whip-like "tails" of certain cells in both the plant and animal kingdoms, which undulates with a regular pattern; used primarily for locomotion, and also for other purposes; such as, attracting food particles or moving substances through a "mouth" cavity. From the Latin word for "whip".

zoofulvin: A yellow pigment in bird feathers.

zoogamete: A motile gamete.

zoogamous, zoogamy: 1. A reference to animals that reproduce sexually. 2. A reference to plants having motile gametes.

zoogenesis: 1. The doctrine of animal production or generation. 2. The origin of animals or animal life on earth. 3. The origin and development of a particular animal species.

zoogenetic: 1. Being of animal origin. 2. A reference to zoogenesis.

zoogenic: 1. Produced by or associated with the activity of animals. 2. A reference to changes caused by animals or their activities; zoogenous.

zoogenic: 1. A reference to the generation of animals. 2. Pertaining to the study of animal generation. 3. The doctrine of the production or generation of animals.

zoogenous: 1. Produced, acquired, or caused by animals. 2. Originating in or produced by animals; viviparous.

zoogeny: The development and evolution of animals.

zoogeographer: A person who studies and records the geographical distribution of animals and animal communities.

zoogeographic, zoogeographical: Describing the relationship between geography and animal life; especially, the effect of geographical barriers such as deserts, mountain ranges, or oceans on the type of animal life found in various areas.

zoogeographic(al) region: 1. Any of the major geographical areas into which the earth is divided on the basis of distinct forms of animal life or fauna; e.g., the Australin region includes marsupial and monotreme forms not found elsewhere. Also known as zoogeographic(al) realm. 2. Nine such regions are recognized: Palaearctic (Northern Europe and Asia), Nearctic (North America, Greenland, etc.), Ethiopian (Africa and Arabia), Madagascan, Neotropical (Mexico, Central and South America), Oriental (India, Burma, and S.E. Asia west of Wallace's Line), Australasian (Australia, New Guinea, and islands S.E. Of Wallace's Line), New Zealand (including neighboring islands), Polynesian (numerous pacific islands of volcanic origin having no apparent connection with the continents). —A.W. Leftwich. A Dictionary of Zoology, 1973.

zoogeography: 1. The study of the geographical distribution of animals and animal communities. 2. The scientific study of the areas where different animals live and the causes and effects of such distribution, especially distributions on a large or global scale.

zooglea, zoogleal, zoogloea: 1. A colony of microbes embedded in a gelatinous matrix (a substance in which something is enclosed). 2. A jellylike cluster of bacteria swollen by the absorption of fluids from the medium in which they are grown. 3. A gelatinous mass of bacterial cells produced by certain genuses; such as, Zoogloea ramigera; used to treat sewage. The bacteria gradually swell up into zoogloea masses, until finally their bodies break down into soluble nitrogenous substances which are partly absorbed and assimilated and partly stored as reserve nitrogenous food by the green leguminous plant. —Youngken, Pharmaceutical Botany

zoogonous, zoogony, zoogonic: Viviparous; that is, producing live offspring from within the body of the parent.

zoograft, zoografting: A graft of tissue from an animal to a human; animal graft; zooplastic graft.

zoographer: 1. One who describes animals; a descriptive zoologist. 2. A painter or depicter of animals.

zoography, zoograph, zoographic: 1. Description of animals; descriptive zoology. 2. The art of depicting animals.

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zoohormone: An animal hormone.

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zooid, zooidal: 1. Resembling an animal; an organism or object with an animal-like appearance. 2. An animal cell capable of independent existence or movement, as the ovum or a spermatozoon, or the segment of a tapeworm. 3. An individual invertebrate animal that reproduces nonsexually by budding or spliting, especially one that lives in a colony in which each member is joined to others by living material, e.g., a coral. 4. An individual forming part of a colony; a polyp (characterized by a more or less fixed base, columnar body, and free end with mouth and tentacles).

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zool: An abbreviation of zoology or zoological.

zoolagnia: 1. Sexual attraction towards animals; sexual bestiality. 2. Sexual desire for animals.

zoolater: Someone who either worships or gives excessive attention to animals.

zoolatrous: A tendency towards worship or excessive attention to animals.

zoolatry, zoolater: 1. In some ancient cultures, the worshiping of animals. 2. Excessive devotion to animals, especially domestic pets.

zoolith, zoolite, zoolithic: An animal fossil.

zoological: 1. Of animals and animal life; a zoological region, a zoological exhibition. 2. Having to do with zoology; zoological works, a zoological experiment.

zoological gardens: 1. Original term for zoo. 2. The facility where wild animals are housed for exhibition. 3. A park or an institution in which living animals are kept and usually exhibited to the public. 4. A place where animals are restricted within artificial environments and exhibited to the public.

zoologist: A scientist specializing in the discipline of zoology; an expert in zoology.

zoology: 1. The branch of biology that deals with the study of animals and animal life; the study of the structure, physiology, development, classification, etc., of animals. 2. The animals living in a particular area or period. 3. Zoological facts or characteristics concerning a particular animal or group of animals. Also called, zoobiology.

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zoomancy: Divination with observations of animals or their movements under particular circumstances; imaginary animals that people claim to have seen; such as, a salamander playing around in a fire or a sea serpent riding ocean waves.

zoomania, zoomaniac: 1. A mania or insane fondness or craze for animals. 2. An excessive devotion to an animal (dog, cat, etc.) or to certain animals. 3. A Zoo Tycoon fansite.

zoomantist: Someone who uses animal behavior as a means of predicting future events.

Zoomastigina: Zooflagellates; phylum of Protoctista comprising unicellular heterotrophic organisms possessing at least one flagellum, often more; may be free-living or parasitic.

Zoomastigophorea: A protozoan class of the subphylum Mastigophora, including choanoflagellates, retortamonads, trichomonads, oxymonads, diplomonads, and hypermastigids.

zoomelanin: A black pigment in bird feathers.

zoometrist: A specialist who uses statistical methods in the study of animals.

zoometry, zoometrics: 1. The application of statistical methods to the study of animals. 2. The branch of zoology that studies the sizes and proportions of animals. 3. The measurement and comparison of the sizes of animals and their parts.

zoomimic: A plant that imitates (mimics) an animal.

zoomorph: 1. The representation of gods as animals or the attributing of animal characteristics to gods. 2. The use of animal figures in art and design or of animal symbols in literature. 3. A design element that depicts an animal; such as, those found in cave paintings or drawings.

zoomorphic: 1. Behavior, relating to or characterized by zoomorphism. 2. Regarding human behavior as equivalent to animal behavior. 3. A reference to or produced by the activity of animals. 4. Having the form of an animal.

zoomorphism: 1. The viewing of human behavior in terms of the behavior of animals, especially the principle that human actions are entirely the result of biological and instinctual drives rather than reason or emotion. 2. The fact of conceiving or representing a deity as having an animal form. 3. The attribution of animal characteristics or qualities to a god. 4. The use of animal forms in symbolism, literature, or graphic representation.

zoomorphosis: 1. Having the form of an animal. 2. Formation of structures in plants as a result of animal agents; such as, in the production of galls.

zoomyle: A human zoomyle refers to a variety of human malformations or "monsters", including uterine moles (an abnormal development of the placenta during pregnancy; also known as, hydatidiform mole).

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zoon: An individual developed from an egg.

zooneuston, zooneustonic: 1. Minute animal organisms that float or swim on surface water or on a surface film of water. 2. The animals of the neuston.

zoonomist: A specialist in the laws of animal life.

zoonomy, zoonomia, zoonomic: 1. The laws of animal life or the animal kingdom. 2. The physiology of animals.

zoonosia: An infection or infestation shared in nature by humans and other animals that are the normal or usual host; a disease of humans acquired from an animal source.

zoonosis (s), zoonoses (pl); zoonotic: 1. Any disease of lower animals that may be transmitted to mankind; e.g., rabies, brucellosis, bird flu, or parrot fever (psittacosis). 2. A disease communicated from one kind of animal to another or to a human being; usually restricted to diseases transmitted naturally to man from animals; also, anthropozoonosis.

zoonosologist: 1. One who classifies the diseases of animals. 2. A specialist in the diseases of animals.

zoonosology: The study and classification of the various diseases of animals.

zoonotic: A disease that is transmissible from animals to humans under natural conditions; a reference to or constituting a zoonosis.

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Zoopagales: Order of zygomycete fungi which are haustorial ectoparasites or endoparasites of other fungi, protistans and animals; also treated as a class of phylum Zygomycota.

zoopalaeontology: 1. Animal life of the geological past. 2. Prehistoric animals.

zooparasite, zooparasitic: A reference to a parasite (or parasites) having an animal host.

zoopathology, zoopathy: 1. The study or science of the diseases of animals; animal pathology. 2. Animal diseases, especially those of lower animal forms.

zoopery, zooperal: Performing experiments on animals, especially the lower animals.

zoophagy, zoophage, zoophagous: Feeding on animals or animal matter; carnivorous.

zoopharmacology: 1. The use of drugs in the treatment of animals. 2. Effects of drugs on animals. 3. Veterinary pharmacology.

zoophile, zoophilist: 1. A lover of animals; especially one that is more fond of animals than of humans. 2. One who is opposed to any animal experimentation; also known as an antivivisectionist.

zoophilia, zoophilism, zoophilous: 1. In biology, a plant that is pollinated by animals other than insects. 2. A strong fondness or affinity for animals and a devotion to protecting or rescuing them from human activities, e.g., vivisection, that exploit or endanger them.

zoophilic: 1. Preferring other animals to human beings such as certain mosquitoes and dermatophytes (for example, fungi parasites). 2. In microbiology, a description of a pathogenic organism that prefers animal hosts instead of human beings.

zoophily: 1. Having a special fondness for animals; especially having more love for animals than for people. 2. An opposition to any animal experimentation; opposed to cruelty to animals; specifically, antivivisectionism. 3. In biology, pollination by animals; applied to plants whose seeds are disseminated by the agency of animals. 4. Animals that serve as erogenous agents, including avisodomy, bestialosadism, entomocism, necrobestialism, orphidicism, etc.

zoophobia: A morbid or irrational fear of animals in general or of a specific animal.

zoophobic: Shunning, or shunned by, animals; such as, plants protected by spines, hairs, secretions, etc.

zoophysics, zoophysical: The study of animal physiology and form.

zoophysiology: 1. The physiology of animals, as distinct from that of humans. 2. The vital physical processes and functions of animals.

zoophyte, zoophytic: Any of various invertebrate animals that resemble plants in morphology (form) or mode of life more than that of an animal; such as, the sea anemones, corals, sponges, etc.

zoophytology, zoophytological: 1. The branch of zoology concerned with the zoophytes. 2. The biology of zoophytes; such as, sea-anemones, crinoids, corals, and sponges.

zooplanktology: The biology of zooplanktons.

zooplankton, zooplankters, zooplanktonic: 1. Animal plankton; floating animal organisms collectively. 2. A small animal organism present in natural waters. 3. Microscopic animals that move passively in aquatic ecosystems; such as, protozoans. 4. Microscopic drifting animal life much of which lives on or near the surface of water but some are at greater depths.

The zoologist studies the nutritional requirements and efficiencies of food conversion of marine animals (zooplankters) feeding on marine phytoplankters or on other small animals.

These tiny animals consist of rotifers, copepods, and krill, and microorganisms once classified as animals; such as, dinoflagellates and other protozoans.

To the zooplankton belong the protozoa, the sea anemones, the corals, and the incredibly shaped jellyfishes.

Zooplankton are animals that are kept in suspension by water turbulence and dispersed more by such water movements than by their own efforts.

zooplasm: Living substance which depends on the products of other living organisms for nutritive material.

zooplasty, zooplastic: 1. The process of surgically grafting tissue from a lower animal onto the human body. 2. The surgical transplantation of an animal organ, e.g., a pig’s heart, into a human body.

zoopraxiscope: A series of projected images of slides placed on a large disk onto a screen. Eadweard Muybridge spent most of 1881-1882 in Paris and London exhibiting the zoopraxiscope and lecturing on animal motion.

The zoopraxiscope (pronounced ZOH uh PRAKS uh skohp), invented by British photographer Eadweard Muybridge and first shown in 1879, was a primitive version of later motion picture devices which worked by showing a sequence of still photographs in rapid succession. Muybridge, perhaps best known today for his sequence of photographs of a race horse in motion (which proved for the first time that at top speed all feet leave the ground), studied photography in the early 1860s with daguerrotypist Silas Selleck and later achieved recognition for his photographs of the Yosemite Valley and other scenes of the American Far West.

The zoopraxiscope emerged out of his studies of motion as shown in sequences of still photographs. His eleven-volume work, Animal Locomotion, published in 1887, contained over 100,000 photographs. In 1893, he lectured at "Zoopraxigraphical Hall" at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago.

The zoopraxiscope, along with the zoetrope and the thaumatrope, could be considered forerunners of today's motion display technologies (including the animated GIF and video display technologies such as streaming video), all of which create an effect of motion by presenting discrete but closely-related images one after the other.

zoopraxographist: Someone who is well informed about or is a specialist in zoopraxography.

zoopraxography: 1. Locomotion of animals. 2. The study of animal movement.

zoopsia, zooscopy: An hallucinatory vision of animals or a form of hallucination in which the sufferer imagines he/she sees animals.

zoopsychology: 1. A branch of psychology that studies animal behavior. 2. The behavior and mental processes of animals; animal psychology.

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zoosadism: Cruelty to animals.

zoosaprophage, zoosaprophagous, zoosaprophagy: 1. Consuming decaying animal matter. 2. Feeding on liquid secretions of other animals.

zooscopy: The scientific observation of animals.

zoosemiotics: 1. The study of animal communication. 2. The study of the methods by which animals use signaling as a form of communication.

zoosis: Any disease caused by an animal; especially by animal parasites.

zoosmosis: The process of osmosis in living tissues.

zoosphere: The world community of animals.

zoosporangiophore: A structure bearing zoosporangia (sporangium in which zoospores develop).

zoosporangium (s), zoosporangia (pl): 1. A receptacle containing zoospores. 2. A spore case in which zoospores are produced.

zoospore, zoosporal: 1. A spore of some algae and fungi that is capable of independent movement. 2. An asexual spore that can move about by means of cilia or flagella, produced by some algae and fungi.

zoosteroid: Any steroid of animal origin.

zoosterol: An sterol of animal origin.

zoosuccivorous, zoosuccivore, zoosuccivory: 1. A reference to organisms that feed on liquid secretions of animals. 2. An organism that sucks the blood or other fluid from animal bodies. 3. Feeding on decaying animal matter.

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zootaxy: Zoological classification; the scientific classification of animals.

zootechny, zootechnics: 1. The science and principles of animal husbandry. 2. The art of managing domestic or captive animals, including breeding, rearing, and utilization.

zootheism: 1. The belief that an animal is a god and the worship of that animal. 2. The attribution of a deity to animals.

zootheist: 1. One who believes a god is in the form of an animal. 2. Someone who worships animal gods.

zootheology: The study of god-animals or the study of animal deities and their worship.

zootic: A reference to animals other than humans.

zootomist: A comparative animal anatomist.

zootomy, zootomic, zootomical: 1. The study of the anatomy of animals, especially comparative anatomy. 2. The dissection of animals other than humans.

zootoxin, zootoxic: A poison produced by an animal (or insects); such as, the venom of snakes, spiders, scorpions, etc.

zootrophic: Relating to or providing nutrition to lower animals; concerning animal nutrition.

zootrophotoxism: 1. Poisoning due to ingestion of contaminated food of animal origin. 2. Poisoning from the consumption of animal products.

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zooxanthella (s), zooxanthellae (pl): 1. A microscopic yellow-green alga that lives symbiotically within the cells of some marine invertebrates, especially corals. 2. Plantlike flagellate protozoans in the order Dinoflagellida, photosynthesizing symbiotes inside the cells of sponges, corals, and others. 3. Unicellular yellow algae containing xanthophyll and living as symbionts in the tissues of higher organisms; such as, sponges, coelenterates, worms, etc.

Zooxanthellales: A monofamilial order of mostly intrafamilial symbiont flagellates of the class Dionphyceae, noted for excreting large amounts of photosynthate as glycerol and aiding in the calcification of corals.

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