zoogloeic, adj.

zoogloeic
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Revised 2017

# zoogloeicadjective

## Factsheet

### What does the adjective zoogloeic mean?

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

### How common is the adjective zoogloeic?

Fewer than 0.01occurrences per million words in modern written English

1880 | 0.0008
1890 | 0.0006
1900 | 0.0005
1910 | 0.0005
1920 | 0.0005
1930 | 0.0004
1940 | 0.0003
1950 | 0.0001
1960 | 0.0001
1970 | 0.0001
1980 | 0.00008
1990 | 0.00003
2000 | 0.00002
2010 | 0.000004

### Where does the adjective zoogloeic come from?

Earliest known use

1880s

The earliest known use of the adjective zoogloeic is in the 1880s.

OED's earliest evidence for zoogloeic is from 1883, in New York Med. Times.

### Nearby entries

1. zoogeographer, n. 1868–
2. zoogeographic, adj. 1875–
3. zoogeographical, adj. 1864–
4. zoogeographically, adv. 1883–
5. zoogeography, n. 1851–
6. zoogeological, adj. 1841–
7. zoogeologist, n. 1844–
8. zoogeology, n. 1838–
9. zoogloea, n. 1861–
10. zoogloeal, adj. 1879–
11. zoogloeic, adj.1883–
12. zoogonic, adj. 1787–
13. zoogonidium, n. 1857–
14. zoogony, n. 1675–
15. zoograph, n. 1623
16. zoographer, n. 1646–
17. zoographic, adj. 1741–
18. zoographical, adj. 1651–
19. zoographically, adv. 1835–
20. zoographist, n. 1749–1874
21. zoography, n. 1593–

## Meaning & use

Now rare. Microbiology.

1. 1883–
   = zoogloeal adj.
   Stressed as ˌzooˈgloeic.
   1. 1883

      > These zoogloeic masses exist in caseous granulations.

      New York Med. Times August 155/2
   2. 1905

      > The giant or mother cells have the appearance of zoogloeic masses.

      British Medical Journal 25 February 409/2
   3. 1957

      > The zoogloeic organisms are grown on the media surfaces.

      U.S. Patent 2,809,933 5
   bacteria
   1. zoogloeal 1879–
      Of, relating to, or of the nature of a zoogloea.
   2. zoogloeic 1883–
      = zoogloeal, adj.
   3. symplastic 1916–
      Of or pertaining to a symplast or symplasm; symplastic growth, the expansion of a common wall between adjacent plant cells during cell enlargement.
   4. symplasmic 1923–
      Of or pertaining to (a) symplasm.
   5. symplasmatic 1974–
      Botany. = symplasmic, adj.
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## Frequency

zoogloeic typically occurs fewer than 0.01 times per million words in modern written English.

zoogloeic 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 zoogloeic, adj., 1880–2010

* 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
--- | ---
1880 | 0.0008
1890 | 0.0006
1900 | 0.0005
1910 | 0.0005
1920 | 0.0005
1930 | 0.0004
1940 | 0.0003
1950 | 0.0001
1960 | 0.0001
1970 | 0.0001
1980 | 0.00008
1990 | 0.00003
2000 | 0.00002
2010 | 0.000004

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

zoogloea, n. was revised in June 2017.