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Zeon vs Zoon - What's the difference?

zeon | zoon |

As nouns the difference between zeon and zoon

is that zeon is the hot water added to the chalice by the priest during the byzantine eucharist to commemorate the water that flowed from the crucified christ's side when pierced by the spear while zoon is (biology):.

zeon

English

Noun

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  • the hot water added to the chalice by the priest during the Byzantine Eucharist to commemorate the water that flowed from the crucified Christ's side when pierced by the spear

    • Anagrams

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    zoon

    English

    Alternative forms

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    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)

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