<zoo-comb. form + ‑graphycomb. form.In sense 1a perhaps after post-classical Latinzoographia description of animals (1579 or earlier).In sense 2 after ancient Greekζῳγραϕία (art of) painting (perhaps originally…
<zoo-comb. form + ‑graphycomb. form.In sense 1a perhaps after post-classical Latinzoographia description of animals (1579 or earlier).In sense 2 after ancient Greekζῳγραϕία (art of) painting (perhaps originally painting from life: see zoographn.).
Meaning & use
1.a.
1593–
The description of animals and their characteristics, descriptive zoology; a work containing descriptions of animals. Cf. phytographyn. 1. In early use also: †description of something or someone as an animal (obsolete). Now chiefly historical.
1593
When men play the parts of beasts, let them go among the numbers of cattel in Zoography and keepe their fit place.
R. Harvey, Philadelphus 97
1651
We are now come to that rare piece of Zoography of thine, the world drawn out in the shape of an Animal.
H. More, Second Lash of Alazonomastix 65
1671
But intending no Zoography, I pass from this [sc. the camel] and other Tame Quadrupeds, to observe that Barbary hath all sorts of Beasts that are called Wild.
L. Addison, West Barbary 99
1704
All we could agree upon would be, that Clouds there were, but that I was grosly mistaken in the Zoography and Topography of them.
J. Swift, Tale of Tub Epistle Ded. 8
1777
While taste is pleased with elegance, and the heart susceptible of sympathy, the study of Zoography must be interesting.
Beauties Natural History p. xiii
1841
The zoography of Pallas (completed in 1811, and first published in 1831), has been considerably augmented by Eichwald.
Monthly Review March 314
1865
With regard to species and groups of species, (a) their complete description or Zoography; (b) their systematic arrangement or Taxonomy.
Natural History Review July 352
1972
Natural history is itself treated sacredly, partly as in such sacred zoögraphies as the Historia Animalium Sacra of Franzius.
E. Miner, John Dryden 255
2001
Péron's great plan for a separate volume on the zoography of the voyage also failed to win the support of the authorities.
The geographical distribution of animals; the branch of science dealing with this; = zoogeographyn.
1869
Of like importance is Dr. Smitt's voluminous synopsis of the Arctic and boreal Bryozoa, which..has established, I believe, this part of zoögraphy on quite a new base.
American Naturalistvol. 3 215
1896
The subject of separation or isolation in its bearings on geology and zoography is discussed by A. E. Ortmann.
Science 10 July 56/2
1946
Admitted that zoography and phytogeography are by no means to be considered as being one and the same science.
T. Barbour, Naturalist's Scrapbook vi. 109
1999
Local zoography may be better predicted with more accurate estimates of local reproductive parameters.
The depiction in painting or art of animals or living creatures. Also (chiefly with specific allusion to ancient Greek or Latin): pictorial art in general. rare.
1656
Zoography..the painting or picturing of beasts.
T. Blount, Glossographia
1814
The earlier writers on art,..who flourished before the age of Trajan and the Antonines, constantly entitle their books on zoographers, on zoography—this was their only usual denomination for painting, as if still life did not merit the name.
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.
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.
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
Forms
Variant forms
1500s–
zoography
1600s–
zoögraphy
Frequency
zoography typically occurs fewer than 0.01 times per million words in modern written English.
zoography 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 zoography, n., 1750–2010
* 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.