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zoöcytium

zoöcytium is the archaic spelling of zoocytium.

Meaning of zoocytium

Noun

zoocytium (plural zoocytia)

  1. (archaic) The sheathe, or covering, often branched, of certain kinds of social infusoria. It is more commonly known today as the gelatinous matrix.

Forms of zoöcytium

pluralzoöcytia

Questions about zoöcytium

What is zoöcytium the archaic spelling of?
Zoöcytium is the archaic spelling of zoocytium.

Words near zoöcytium in the dictionary

  1. zoöchlorellae
  2. zoöcide
  3. zoöcides
  4. zoöcyst
  5. zoöcysts
  6. zoöcytium
  7. zoödendrium
  8. zoöerythrine
  9. zoögamy
  10. zoögeny
  11. zoögeographical

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Adapted from Wiktionary: zoöcytium (page history and authors); zoocytium (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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