It appears advisable to reconsider the terminology applied to stages in the life-histories of gregarines and coccidians... Zoite, an infective stage, produced by division of a zygote, and usually surrounded by an envelope which is either a zoitocyst or zygocyst.
E. N. Kozloff in J. Ludvík et al., Progress in Protozoology (Proc. 1st Internat. Congr. Protozool., Prague, 1961) 78
1969
Another stage in the development of Toxoplasma is the cystic form or zoite.
New Scientist 29 May 465/1
1977
Electronmicroscopic studies revealed that the structure of T. gondii zoites (trophozoites, merozoites, ‘spores’, etc.) is similar to that of the zoites of the coccidia Eimeria and Isospora.
Journal of Protozoologyvol. 24 36/1
1979
Uninucleate, dinucleate, and multinucleate zoites.
Journal of Protozoologyvol. 26 437/1
1980
Ultrastructurally, cysts of T[oxoplasma]gondii and H[ammondia]hammondi cannot be distinguished with certainty in skeletal muscle. Classification is based on the typical distribution of cysts and their zoites in the intermediate host.
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.
zoite typically occurs fewer than 0.01 times per million words in modern written English.
zoite 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 zoite, n., 1960–2010
* 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
1960
0.0062
1970
0.0057
1980
0.0054
1990
0.0054
2000
0.0055
2010
0.0049
zoite, n. was first published in 1986; not fully revised.