zoniferous

Adjective

zoniferous

1. Composed of many zones or layers.
   • The Kabassous, or Zenurines, have the third as well as the fourth and fifth metacarpals abbreviated and broad, and the proximal phalanges are suppressed or united with the metacarpas, while the distal phalanx of the middle digit is much enlarged, and those of the fourth and fifth not very much...1884, John Sterling Kingsley, Elliott Coues, The Standard Natural History, volume 5, page 50
   • If it continues to be so used, the next logical step will be to speak of town planners as zonists, and to describe different cities as zonate, zoniferous, or zonular, as the case may be.1921, Arthur Hastings Grant, Harold Sinley Buttenheim, The American City - Volume 25, page 213
2. Pertaining to or based on the zone of freedom of movement (the possible actions that are available at the present time), the zone of promoted action (the preference for and highlighting of specific actions), and the zone of proximal development (the set of immediate next possibilities, given the other two zones).
   • The zoniferous canalization process takes place both at the level of immediate actions, and at the level of semiotic mediation.1997, Derek Edwards, Teaching, learning and classroom discourse, page 25
   • Instead of describing the style of parenting that is attributable to the parents' personalities, the zoniferous view of the process of development affords description of conditions in parent-child-environment relationships that are interpreted in everyday language in the terminology of the static...1997, Jaan Valsiner, Culture and the Development of Children's Action, page 318