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Roon vs Zoon - What's the difference?

roon | zoon |

As an adjective roon

is red.

As a noun zoön is

an alternative spelling of lang=en.

roon

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (obsolete) red
  • * J. R. Drake
    • Her face was like the lily roon .
    (Webster 1913) ----

    zoon

    English

    Alternative forms

    *

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • (biology):
  • # An animal which is the sole product of a single egg.
  • # Any one of the perfectly developed individuals of a compound animal.

    • Quotations

    * 1864 , (Herbert Spencer), (Principles of Biology) , page 205, §?73 (1868 reprint; D. Appleton & Co.) *: [… A] zoological individual is constituted either by any such single animal as a mammal or bird, which may properly claim the title of a zoon'' , or by any such group of animals as the numerous ''Medusæ'' that have been developed from the same egg, which are to be severally distinguished as ''zooids .

    Antonyms

    * (an animal which is the sole product of a single egg) zooid (Webster 1913)

    References

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