zoeal, adj.

zoeal
http://www.oed.com/dictionary/zoeal_adj%3Ftab%3Dmeaning_and_use
First published 1921; not fully revised

# zoealadjective

## Factsheet

### What does the adjective zoeal mean?

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

#### Entry status

OED is undergoing a continuous programme of revision to modernize and improve definitions. This entry has not yet been fully revised.

### How common is the adjective zoeal?

About 0.02occurrences per million words in modern written English

1870 | 0.0015
1880 | 0.0014
1890 | 0.0013
1900 | 0.0021
1910 | 0.0025
1920 | 0.003
1930 | 0.0062
1940 | 0.0085
1950 | 0.014
1960 | 0.015
1970 | 0.015
1980 | 0.015
1990 | 0.017
2000 | 0.016
2010 | 0.015

### How is the adjective zoeal pronounced?

#### British English

/zəʊˈiːəl/

### Where does the adjective zoeal come from?

Earliest known use

1870s

The earliest known use of the adjective zoeal is in the 1870s.

OED's only evidence for zoeal is from around 1870, in the writing of P. M. Duncan.

### Nearby entries

1. zocalo, n. 1884–
2. zocco, n. 1664–1723
3. zocle, n. 1704–
4. zoco, n. 1892–
5. zodiac, n. 1390–
6. zodiacal, adj. 1576–
7. zodiac line, n. 1590
8. zodiac ring, n. 1895–
9. zodiographer, n. 1650
10. zoea, n. 1828–
11. zoeal, adj.?1870–
12. zoetrope, n. 1866–
13. zographer, n. 1570
14. zography, n. 1570
15. zograscope, n. 1753–
16. Zohar, n. 1682–
17. zoic, adj. 1863–
18. -zoic, comb. form¹
19. -zoic, comb. form²
20. zoid, n. 1856–
21. zoid, adj. 1864–

## Meaning & use

Zoology.

1. ?1870–
   Of a zoea.
   1. ?1870

      > During the next zoëal period the paired eyes..are formed.

      P. M. Duncan, Transformations Insects xvii. 459
   invertebrates
   1. zoid 1864–
      Applied to a larval or zoea stage in Crustacea.
   2. zoeal?1870–
      Of a zoea.
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## Pronunciation

### British English

/zəʊˈiːəl/

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##### Consonants

- ppea
- ttea
- kkey
- bbuy
- ddye
- ɡguy
- tʃchore
- dʒjay
- ffore
- θthaw
- ssore
- ʃshore
- vvee
- ðthee
- zzee
- ʒbeige
- xloch
- hhay
- llay
- ɬrhingyll
- rray
- wway
- jyore
- mmay
- nnay
- ŋsing

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.

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## Frequency

zoeal typically occurs about 0.02 times per million words in modern written English.

zoeal is in frequency band 3, which contains words occurring between 0.01 and 0.1 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 zoeal, adj., 1870–2010

* 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
--- | ---
1870 | 0.0015
1880 | 0.0014
1890 | 0.0013
1900 | 0.0021
1910 | 0.0025
1920 | 0.003
1930 | 0.0062
1940 | 0.0085
1950 | 0.014
1960 | 0.015
1970 | 0.015
1980 | 0.015
1990 | 0.017
2000 | 0.016
2010 | 0.015

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

zoea, n. was first published in 1921; not fully revised.