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.
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
- zoophobia, n.1888–
- zoophysical, adj.1820–
- zoophysics, n.1887–
- zoophysiology, n.1803–
- zoophytal, adj.1756–
- zoophyte, n.1606–
- zoophytic, adj.1808–
- zoophytical, adj.1779–
- zoophytish, adj.1854–80
- zoophytist, n.1814–62
- zoophytography, n.1735–1905
- zoophytoid, adj.1854–83
- zoophytological, adj.1823–
- zoophytologist, n.1835–
- zoophytology, n.1815–
- zoophyton, n.1601–
- zooplankter, n.1935–
- zooplanktivore, n.1972–
- zooplanktivorous, adj.1971–
- zooplankton, n.1897–
- zooplanktonic, adj.1912–
1735–1905
The scientific description of zoophytes; a discourse on zoophytes.
Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries.
1735
Zoophytography, of the Nature of Shell-Animals.
B. Martin, Philosophical Grammar v. 266
1736
Zoophytography..a Treatise or Discourse of animal Plants, as Cockles, Muscles, Oysters.
N. Bailey et al., Dictionarium Britannicum (ed. 2) Preface
1905
Zoophytography, a description of zoophytes.
Lippencott's Med. Dictionary (revised edition) 1152/2
The scientific description of zoophytes; a discourse on zoophytes.
The branch of zoology which deals with zoophytes (zoophyte, n. 1).
The branch of biology and medicine concerned with parasites and parasitic diseases.
The branch of science that deals with plankton.
A microbiologist knowledgeable about micrococci.
The branch of biology that deals with protists.
Originally published as part of the entry for zoophyte, n.
zoophyte, n. was revised in June 2017.
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