Zoon vs Region - What's the difference?
zoon | region |
(biology):
# An animal which is the sole product of a single egg.
# Any one of the perfectly developed individuals of a compound animal.
Any considerable and connected part of a space or surface; specifically, a tract of land or sea of considerable but indefinite extent; a country; a district; in a broad sense, a place without special reference to location or extent but viewed as an entity for geographical, social or cultural reasons.
An administrative subdivision of a city, a territory, a country or the European Union.
(historical) Such a division of the city of Rome and of the territory about Rome, of which the number varied at different times; a district, quarter, or ward.
(figuratively) The inhabitants of a region or district of a country.
(anatomy) A place in or a part of the body in any way indicated.
(obsolete) Place; rank; station; dignity.
(obsolete) The space from the earth's surface out to the orbit of the moon: properly called the elemental region.
As nouns the difference between zoon and region
is that zoon is an alternative spelling of lang=en while region is any considerable and connected part of a space or surface; specifically, a tract of land or sea of considerable but indefinite extent; a country; a district; in a broad sense, a place without special reference to location or extent but viewed as an entity for geographical, social or cultural reasons.zoon
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Alternative forms
*Noun
(en-noun)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
region
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Noun
(wikipedia region) (en noun)- the equatorial regions
- the temperate regions
- the polar regions
- the upper regions of the atmosphere
- the abdominal regions