zoophytography, n.

zoophytography
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Revised 2017

# † zoophytographynoun

## Factsheet

### What does the noun zoophytography mean?

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

This word is now obsolete. It is last recorded around the 1900s.

### Where does the noun zoophytography come from?

Earliest known use

mid 1700s

The earliest known use of the noun zoophytography is in the mid 1700s.

OED's earliest evidence for zoophytography is from 1735, in the writing of Benjamin Martin, lecturer on science and maker of scientific instruments.

### Nearby entries

1. zoophobia, n. 1888–
2. zoophysical, adj. 1820–
3. zoophysics, n. 1887–
4. zoophysiology, n. 1803–
5. zoophytal, adj. 1756–
6. zoophyte, n. 1606–
7. zoophytic, adj. 1808–
8. zoophytical, adj. 1779–
9. zoophytish, adj. 1854–80
10. zoophytist, n. 1814–62
11. zoophytography, n.1735–1905
12. zoophytoid, adj. 1854–83
13. zoophytological, adj. 1823–
14. zoophytologist, n. 1835–
15. zoophytology, n. 1815–
16. zoophyton, n. 1601–
17. zooplankter, n. 1935–
18. zooplanktivore, n. 1972–
19. zooplanktivorous, adj. 1971–
20. zooplankton, n. 1897–
21. zooplanktonic, adj. 1912–

## Meaning & use

Obsolete rare. Biology.

1. 1735–1905
   The scientific description of zoophytes; a discourse on zoophytes.
   Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries.
   1. 1735

      > Zoophytography, of the Nature of Shell-Animals.

      B. Martin, Philosophical Grammar v. 266
   2. 1736

      > Zoophytography..a Treatise or Discourse of animal Plants, as Cockles, Muscles, Oysters.

      N. Bailey et al., Dictionarium Britannicum (ed. 2) Preface
   3. 1905

      > Zoophytography, a description of zoophytes.

      Lippencott's Med. Dictionary (revised edition) 1152/2
   life sciences
   1. zoophytography 1735–1905
      The scientific description of zoophytes; a discourse on zoophytes.
   2. zoophytology 1815–
      The branch of zoology which deals with zoophytes (zoophyte, n. 1).
   3. parasitology 1870–
      The branch of biology and medicine concerned with parasites and parasitic diseases.
   4. planktology 1892–
      The branch of science that deals with plankton.
   5. planktonology 1896–
      = planktology, n.
   6. micrococcologist 1902–
      A microbiologist knowledgeable about micrococci.
   7. protistology 1903–
      The branch of biology that deals with protists.
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Originally published as part of the entry for zoophyte, n.

zoophyte, n. was revised in June 2017.