zoocentric, adj.

zoocentric
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# zoocentricadjective

## Factsheet

### What does the adjective zoocentric mean?

There is one meaning in OED's entry for the adjective zoocentric. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definition, usage, and quotation evidence.

### How common is the adjective zoocentric?

Fewer than 0.01occurrences per million words in modern written English

1880 | 0.0005
1890 | 0.0004
1900 | 0.0004
1910 | 0.0003
1920 | 0.0001
1930 | 0.0001
1940 | 0.0001
1950 | 0.0002
1960 | 0.0005
1970 | 0.0008
1980 | 0.0011
1990 | 0.0013
2000 | 0.0015
2010 | 0.0017

### How is the adjective zoocentric pronounced?

#### British English

/ˌzuːə(ʊ)ˈsɛntrɪk/
zoo-oh-SEN-trick
/ˌzəʊə(ʊ)ˈsɛntrɪk/
zoh-oh-SEN-trick

#### U.S. English

/ˌzoʊəˈsɛntrɪk/
zoh-uh-SEN-trick
/ˌzuəˈsɛntrɪk/
zoo-uh-SEN-trick

### Where does the adjective zoocentric come from?

Earliest known use

1880s

The earliest known use of the adjective zoocentric is in the 1880s.

OED's earliest evidence for zoocentric is from 1882, in Transactions Anthropol. Soc. Washington 1879–82.

### Nearby entries

1. zonulet, n. 1648
2. zonure, n. 1883–
3. zoo, n. 1835–
4. zoo-, comb. form
5. zooarchaeological, adj. 1962–
6. zooarchaeologist, n. 1957–
7. zooarchaeology, n. 1967–
8. zoobenthos, n. 1923–
9. zoocarp, n. 1824–88
10. zoocaulon, n. 1881–
11. zoocentric, adj.1882–
12. zoochemical, adj. & n. 1844–
13. zoochemistry, n. 1835–
14. zoochlorella, n. 1882–
15. zoochore, n. 1904–
16. zoochorous, adj. 1904–
17. zoochory, n. 1921–
18. zoo-crazy, adj. 1938–
19. zoocultural, adj. 1899–
20. zooculture, n. 1873–
21. zoocytium, n. 1880–

## Meaning & use

1. 1882–
   Centred on or principally concerned with the animal world, esp. to the exclusion of plants or humans; characterized by such a focus.
   1. 1882

      > In later times a few of this school have expanded their scheme to embrace the animal world in general, rendering it zoöcentric instead of anthropocentric.

      Transactions Anthropol. Soc. Washington 1879–82 vol. 1 93
   2. 1977

      > Virtually all of the work reported is that of zoologists and the research is zoocentric.

      J. L. Harper, Population Biology of Plants 433
   3. 2001

      > You are showing your zoocentric side with your description... This sort of arrangement is not so rare among plants.

      Nature 26 July 375/3
   life sciences
   1. animalcular 1753–
      = animalculist, adj. Now historical and rare.
   2. zoocentric 1882–
      Centred on or principally concerned with the animal world, esp. to the exclusion of plants or humans; characterized by such a focus.
   3. organismic 1886–
      Of or relating to an organism; of the nature of an organism; at the level of the organism; organic.
   4. pre-bacteriological 1892–
      Existing or occurring before the discovery of the relationship of bacteria to disease, or before the development of bacteriology.
   5. pre-bacteriologic 1902–
      = pre-bacteriological, adj.
   6. age and area 1915–
      (attributive) designating a hypothesis that other things being equal, the area occupied by a taxonomic group, culture, vocabulary item, etc., is…
   7. neurogenic 1915–
      Embryology. Of or relating to neurogenesis; giving rise to nervous tissue.
   8. maturationist 1968–
      Of, relating to, or characteristic of maturationists or their beliefs.
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## Pronunciation

### British English

/ˌzuːə(ʊ)ˈsɛntrɪk/
zoo-oh-SEN-trick
/ˌzəʊə(ʊ)ˈsɛntrɪk/
zoh-oh-SEN-trick

### U.S. English

/ˌzoʊəˈsɛntrɪk/
zoh-uh-SEN-trick
/ˌzuəˈsɛntrɪk/
zoo-uh-SEN-trick

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##### Consonants

- ppea
- ttea
- kkey
- bbuy
- ddye
- ɡguy
- tʃchore
- dʒjay
- ffore
- θthaw
- ssore
- ʃshore
- vvee
- ðthee
- zzee
- ʒbeige
- xloch
- hhay
- llay
- ɬrhingyll
- rray
- wway
- jyore
- mmay
- nnay
- ŋsing

Some consonants can take the function of the vowel in unstressed syllables. Where necessary, a syllabic marker diacritic is used, hence /ˈpɛtl/ but /ˈpɛtl̩i/.

##### Vowels

- iːfleece
- ihappy
- ɪkit
- ɛdress
- atrap, bath
- ɑːstart, palm, bath
- ɒlot
- ɔːthought, force
- ʌstrut
- ʊfoot
- uːgoose
- əletter
- əːnurse
- ɪənear
- ɛːsquare
- ʊəcure
- eɪface
- ʌɪpride
- aʊmouth
- əʊgoat
- ɔɪvoice
- ãgratin
- ɒ̃salon
- ᵻ(/ɪ/-/ə/)
- ᵿ(/ʊ/-/ə/)

##### Other symbols

- The symbol ˈ at the beginning of a syllable indicates that that syllable is pronounced with primary stress.
- The symbol ˌ at the beginning of a syllable indicates that that syllable is pronounced with secondary stress.
- Round brackets ( ) in a transcription indicate that the symbol within the brackets is optional.

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##### Consonants

- ppea
- ttea
- kkey
- bbuy
- ddye*
- ɡguy
- tʃchore
- dʒjay
- ffore
- θthaw
- ssore
- ʃshore
- vvee
- ðthee
- zzee
- ʒbeige
- xloch
- hhay
- llay
- rray
- wway
- jyore
- mmay
- nnay
- ŋsing

* /d/ also represents a 'tapped' /t/ as in

Some consonants can take the function of the vowel in unstressed syllables. Where necessary, a syllabic marker diacritic is used, hence /ˈpɛd(ə)l/ but /ˈpɛdl̩i/.

##### Vowels

- ifleece, happy
- ɪkit
- ɛdress
- ætrap, bath
- ɑlot, palm, cloth, thought
- ɑrstart
- ɔcloth, thought
- ɔrnorth, force
- ʊfoot
- ugoose
- əstrut, comma
- ərnurse, letter
- ɪ(ə)rnear
- ɛ(ə)rsquare
- ʊ(ə)rcure
- eɪface
- aɪpride
- aʊmouth
- oʊgoat
- ɔɪvoice
- ɑ̃gratin
- æ̃salon
- ᵻ(/ɪ/-/ə/)
- ᵿ(/ʊ/-/ə/)

##### Other symbols

- The symbol ˈ at the beginning of a syllable indicates that that syllable is pronounced with primary stress.
- The symbol ˌ at the beginning of a syllable indicates that that syllable is pronounced with secondary stress.
- Round brackets ( ) in a transcription indicate that the symbol within the brackets is optional.

View the pronunciation model here.

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Simple text respell breaks words into syllables, separated by a hyphen. The syllable which carries the primary stress is written in capital letters. This key covers both British and U.S. English Simple Text Respell.

##### Consonants

b, d, f, h, k, l, m, n, p, r, s, t, v, w and z have their standard English values

- gguy
- jjay
- yyore
- chchore
- khloch
- shshore
- ththaw
- dhthee
- zhbeige

##### Vowels

- atrap
- ahpalm
- airsquare
- arstart
- arrcarry (British only)
- awthought
- ayface
- a(ng)gratin
- edress
- eefleece
- eerdeer
- errmerry
- ikit
- ighpride
- irrmirror
- olot (British only)
- ohgoat
- oogoose
- oorcure
- orforce
- orrsorry (British only)
- owmouth
- oyvoice
- o(ng)salon
- ustrut
- uhletter
- urnurse
- urrhurry
- uufoot

## Frequency

zoocentric typically occurs fewer than 0.01 times per million words in modern written English.

zoocentric is in frequency band 2, which contains words occurring between 0.001 and 0.01 times per million words in modern written English. More about OED's frequency bands

Frequency data is computed programmatically, and should be regarded as an estimate.

### Frequency of zoocentric, adj., 1880–2010

* Occurrences per million words in written English

Historical frequency series are derived from Google Books Ngrams (version 2), a data set based on the Google Books corpus of several million books printed in English between 1500 and 2010.

The overall frequency for a given word is calculated by summing frequencies for the main form of the word, any plural or inflected forms, and any major spelling variations.

For sets of homographs (distinct entries that share the same word-form, e.g. mole, n.¹, mole, n.², mole, n.³, etc.), we have estimated the frequency of each homograph entry as a fraction of the total Ngrams frequency for the word-form. This may result in inaccuracies.

Smoothing has been applied to series for lower-frequency words, using a moving-average algorithm. This reduces short-term fluctuations, which may be produced by variability in the content of the Google Books corpus.

Decade | Frequency per million words
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1880 | 0.0005
1890 | 0.0004
1900 | 0.0004
1910 | 0.0003
1920 | 0.0001
1930 | 0.0001
1940 | 0.0001
1950 | 0.0002
1960 | 0.0005
1970 | 0.0008
1980 | 0.0011
1990 | 0.0013
2000 | 0.0015
2010 | 0.0017

Originally published as part of the entry for zoo-, comb. form

zoo-, comb. form was revised in June 2017.