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zoosphere

zoosphere noun: the animals of the Earth, especially as an ecosystem.

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 zoosphere

pluralzoospheres
alternative formzoösphere

Origin of zoosphere

From zoo- + -sphere.

Questions about zoosphere

What does zoosphere mean?
Zoosphere means the animals of the Earth, especially as an ecosystem.
What part of speech is zoosphere?
Zoosphere is a noun.
What is the plural of zoosphere?
The plural of zoosphere is zoospheres.

Words near zoosphere in the dictionary

  1. zoosophy
  2. zoosperm
  3. zoospermia
  4. zoospermic
  5. zoosperms
  6. zoosphere
  7. zoospheres
  8. zoosporal
  9. zoosporange
  10. zoosporanges
  11. zoosporangia

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