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- Relating to a specified manner of animal existence: holozoic.
- Of or relating to a specified geologic era: Archeozoic.
[From Greek zōikos, of animals, from zōion, living being.]
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[From Greek zōikos, of animals, from zōion, living being.]
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Relating to a specified manner of animal existence: holozoic.
| WordNet: zoic |
The adjective has one meaning:
Meaning #1:
pertaining to animals or animal life or action
Pertains to noun: animal (meaning #1)
| Cenozoic (designating the latest era of geologic time) | |
| Proterozoic (divisions of Precambrian time) | |
| Phanerozoic (geologic time period) |
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