different between zoon vs zoos

English

Alternative forms

• zoön

Etymology

First adopted by Herbert Spencer in Principles of Biology (see 1864 quotation): from New Latin z?on, from Ancient Greek ???? (zôion, “animal”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?z???n/

Noun

zoon (plural zoa or zoons)

1. (biology) An animal which is the sole product of a single egg.
2. (biology) Any one of the perfectly developed individuals of a compound animal.

Quotations

• 1864, Herbert Spencer, Principles of Biology, page 205, §?73 (1868 reprint; D. Appleton & Co.)

  [… A] zoological individual is constituted either by any such single animal as a mammal or bird, which may properly claim the title of a zoon, or by any such group of animals as the numerous Medusæ that have been developed from the same egg, which are to be severally distinguished as zooids.

Antonyms

• (an animal which is the sole product of a single egg): zooid

References

Anagrams

• nooz, zono-

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch s?ne, from Old Dutch suno, from Proto-Germanic *sunuz, from Proto-Indo-European *suHnús.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /zo?n/
• Hyphenation: zoon
• Homophone: zo'n
• Rhymes: -o?n

Noun

zoon m (plural zoons or zonen, diminutive zoontje n)

1. son

Derived terms

• kleinzoon
• Mensenzoon
• Zoon des mensen

Descendants

• Afrikaans: seun

See also

• dochter

Anagrams

• ozon

Esperanto

Pronunciation

Noun

zoon

1. accusative singular of zoo

Limburgish

Etymology

From Middle Dutch s?ne, from Old Dutch suno, from Proto-Germanic *sunuz, from Proto-Indo-European *suHnús.

Noun

zoon m (plural zeuns)

1. son

Yola

Adverb

zoon

1. soon

References

• Jacob Poole (1867) , William Barnes, editor, A glossary, with some pieces of verse, of the old dialect of the English colony in the baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, J. Russell Smith, ?ISBN

English

Noun

zoos

1. plural of zoo

Danish

Noun

zoos

1. indefinite genitive singular of zoo

Dutch

Pronunciation

Noun

zoos

1. plural of zoo

Spanish

Noun

zoos m pl

1. plural of zoo

Swedish

Noun

zoos

1. indefinite genitive singular of zoo