zoophite

See also: zoöphite

English

Noun

zoophite (plural zoophites)

1. Alternative spelling of zoophyte
   • 1884, Geological Society of London, Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London, HighWire Press, page 274:

     The lower bed is three feet five inches in thickness, contains less of the zoophite, and fewer fossils than the upper, but the siliceous pebbles are more […]

   • June 1911, “Popular Science”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), volume 78, number 37, Bonnier Corporation, page 583:

     From the first development of his organism from a zoophite, his senses have evolved in relation to matter alone, and it is only within recent times that he […]

   • 2005, Kersey Graves, The Bible of Bibles or Twenty-Seven Divine Revelations, page 87:

     The first species was the zoophite, a compound of vegetable and animal life, […] Succeeding the zoophite came the mollusks and various hard-shelled animals […]