zoon

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  1. noun An animal developed from a fertilized egg.
  2. noun One of the distinct individuals that join to form a compound or colonial animal; a zooid.
  3. intransitive verb Chiefly Southern U.S. To fly with a humming or buzzing sound.

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  • The juxtaposition is by no means uninteresting or uninstructive, though perhaps it is not entirely favourable to the idea of Mr Arnold's development as a zoon politicon . —  Matthew Arnold
  • (_De skeeters dey zoon, en dey keep on zoonin'._) Brer Rabbit, he talk on, he did T wa'n't des one spotted hoss, Brer Wolf, 't wuz a whole team er spotted hosses, en dey went gallin'-up[44] des lak de yuther hosses,' sezee. —  Nights With Uncle Remus
  • Bretty zoon, dere wass der Kaiser, glose bei, und Fritz, Unzer Fritz. —  The Octopus : A story of California
  • Shipwreck of the Gulden or Vergulden Draak on the West-coast of Australia, 1656.--Attempts to rescue the survivors, 1656-1658 Further surveyings of the West-coast by the ship de Wakende Boei, commanded by Samuel Volckerts(zoon), and by the ship Emeloord, commanded by Aucke Pieterszoon Jonck, (1658) XXX. —  The Part Borne by the Dutch in the Discovery of Australia 1606-1765
  • The juxtaposition is by no means uninteresting or uninstructive, though perhaps it is not entirely favourable to the idea of Mr Arnold's development as a zoon politicon_. —  Matthew Arnold
 

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  1. New Latin zōon, from Greek zōion, zōon, living being; see gwei- in Indo-European roots.
  2. Probably imitative.
 

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