In quot. 1823, used in error to refer to the Swedish university society Zoophytolithiska sällskapet.
Stressed as ˌzoophytoˈlogical.
1823
The Zoophytological Society, founded by Afzelius, at Upsala, in 1802.
Lit. Chron. & Weekly Review 31 May 348/1
1860
This is an important addition to the British Zoophytological Fauna; and it is curious that so large and well-marked a species should have hitherto escaped recognition.
Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Sciencevol. 8 124
1999
Information based on an analysis of problems of characteristic sites as well as certain zoophytological samplings and the results of soundings and fish inventories.
J. Arrignon, Management Freshwater Fisheries iv. 164
zoophytological typically occurs fewer than 0.01 times per million words in modern written English.
zoophytological is in frequency band 1, which contains words occurring fewer than 0.001 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 zoophytological, adj., 1850–2010
* 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
1850
0.0008
1860
0.0008
1870
0.0007
1880
0.0006
1890
0.0006
1900
0.0006
1910
0.0004
1920
0.0002
1930
0.00009
1940
0.00008
1950
0.00009
1960
0.00006
1970
0.00005
1980
0.00002
1990
0.00002
2000
0.00002
2010
0.00003
Originally published as part of the entry for zoophytology, n.