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zoa

UK/ˈzəʊ.ə/US/ˈzoʊ.ə/

zoa is the plural of zoon.

zoa is the plural of zoön.

Meaning of zoon

Noun

zoon (plural zoa or zoons)

  1. A distinct organism.
  2. Any individual produced from a single egg.
  3. The individuals collectively produced from a single egg, also called a compound animal.
  4. (uncommon) Any of the individuals of a compound organism.
  5. (rare) Zooid.

Proper noun capitalized: ZOA

ZOA

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of Zionist Organization of America.
    • It also means that when a right-wing Jewish group such as the ZOA chooses to overlook Bannon’s well-documented links to anti-Semitic white nationalists, it puts itself on a moral par with J.V.P. Bannon is the man who expressly called Breitbart News “the platform for the alt-right,” knowing...2017 November 16, Bret Stephens, “Steve Bannon Is Bad for the Jews”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 18 Nov 2017

Words formed from zoa

Questions about zoa

What is zoa the plural of?
Zoa is the plural of zoon.
What part of speech is zoa?
Zoa is a proper noun.
How do you pronounce zoa?
Zoa is pronounced /ˈzəʊ.ə/ (UK).

Words near zoa in the dictionary

  1. zo
  2. Zo'é
  3. zo-
  4. zo-ologies
  5. zo-ology
  6. zoa
  7. Zoacum
  8. zoaea
  9. zoaeae
  10. zoaeal
  11. zoaeas

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Adapted from Wiktionary: zoa (page history and authors); ZOA (page history and authors); zoon (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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