zooecial, adj.

zooecial
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Revised 2017

# zooecialadjective

## Factsheet

### What does the adjective zooecial mean?

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

### How common is the adjective zooecial?

About 0.02occurrences per million words in modern written English

1870 | 0.018
1880 | 0.021
1890 | 0.028
1900 | 0.029
1910 | 0.027
1920 | 0.037
1930 | 0.045
1940 | 0.044
1950 | 0.043
1960 | 0.035
1970 | 0.03
1980 | 0.029
1990 | 0.022
2000 | 0.012
2010 | 0.0086

### Where does the adjective zooecial come from?

Earliest known use

1870s

The earliest known use of the adjective zooecial is in the 1870s.

OED's earliest evidence for zooecial is from 1873, in the writing of F. A. Smitt.

### Nearby entries

1. zoochorous, adj. 1904–
2. zoochory, n. 1921–
3. zoo-crazy, adj. 1938–
4. zoocultural, adj. 1899–
5. zooculture, n. 1873–
6. zoocytium, n. 1880–
7. zoodendrium, n. 1880–
8. Zoodikers, int. 1749–98
9. zoodynamic, adj.?1819–
10. zoodynamics, n. 1888–
11. zooecial, adj.1873–
12. zooecium, n. 1871–
13. zooerythrin, n. 1871–
14. zooflagellate, n. & adj. 1911–
15. zooful, n. 1914–
16. zoofulvin, n. 1871–
17. zoogamete, n. 1879–
18. zoogene, n. 1820–69
19. zoogenic, adj. 1842–
20. zoogeny, n. 1826–
21. zoogeographer, n. 1868–

## Meaning & use

Zoology.

1. 1873–
   Of or relating to a zooecium or zooecia.
   Stressed as zoˈoecial.
   1. 1873

      > Its zoœcial wall grows thicker.

      F. A. Smitt in Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademiens Handlingar vol. 11 No. 4. 61
   2. 1884

      > The zooecial tube.

      Athenæum 29 March 414
   3. 1972

      > Two rows of large prominent zooecial openings are arranged in alternating rows.

      T. M. Ganesan in A. G. Jhingran et al., Himalayan Geology vol. II. 435
   4. 2011

      > Graphical analysis of standardized data revealed nearest neighbor effects at the zooecial level.

      Journal of Paleontology vol. 85 853
   invertebrates
   1. zooecial 1873–
      Of or relating to a zooecium or zooecia.
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## Frequency

zooecial typically occurs about 0.02 times per million words in modern written English.

zooecial is in frequency band 3, which contains words occurring between 0.01 and 0.1 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 zooecial, adj., 1870–2010

* 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
--- | ---
1870 | 0.018
1880 | 0.021
1890 | 0.028
1900 | 0.029
1910 | 0.027
1920 | 0.037
1930 | 0.045
1940 | 0.044
1950 | 0.043
1960 | 0.035
1970 | 0.03
1980 | 0.029
1990 | 0.022
2000 | 0.012
2010 | 0.0086

Originally published as part of the entry for zooecium, n.

zooecium, n. was revised in June 2017.