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zoösphere

zoösphere is the alternative spelling of zoosphere.

Meaning of zoosphere

Noun

zoosphere (countable and uncountable, plural zoospheres)

  1. The animals of the Earth, especially as an ecosystem.
    • For quite clearly, although we are animals, bound in the web of causality that joins us to the zoosphere, we are not just animals.2017 March 6, Roger Scruton, “If We Are Not Just Animals, What Are We?”, in The New York Times
  2. A layer in which animals are present.
    • […] this mode of selection does not seem to apply to the zoosphere of the investigated Antarctic sediments.1988, Wolfgang Reichardt, “Impact of the Antarctic Benthic Fauna on the Enrichment of Biopolymer Degrading Psychrophilic Bacteria”, in Microbial Ecology, volume 15, number 3, page 319

Forms of zoösphere

pluralzoöspheres

Questions about zoösphere

What is zoösphere the alternative spelling of?
Zoösphere is the alternative spelling of zoosphere.

Words near zoösphere in the dictionary

  1. zoöpsia
  2. zoöpsychologies
  3. zoöpsychology
  4. zoösperm
  5. zoösperms
  6. zoösphere
  7. zoöspheres
  8. zoösporangia
  9. zoösporangium
  10. zoöspore
  11. zoöspores

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