zoo-, zoa-, zo-, -zoic, -zoid, -zoite, -zoal, -zonal, -zooid, -zoon, -zoa, -zoan +

The condition of a parasitic fungus that infests an animal.

Parasitic on an animal, as some fungi; living on or in an animal.

An animal cell.

An animal community.

Biochromes acquired in the food that are metabolically handled and often modified.

An animal community.

Living on animals; such as, fleas and/or ticks.

1. The cultivation (breeding and care) of animals for food or for biodiversity in the wild, zoological gardens, etc.
2. The genetics, breeding, nutrition, and housing of domesticated animals; animal husbandry; also, pecudiculture or "the raising, or rearing, of cattle".

A gelatinous substance embedding masses of ciliated protozoa.

1. Performed with the skin of an animal; said of skin grafting in which the grafts are from the skin of an animal.
2. A reference to the skin of an animal.

Biodetritus (particles, fragments) produced by the disintegration and the decomposition of animal organisms (tissues and structures).

1. Plant structures acting as shelters (homes) for animals.
2. An animal community.

1. The physiology of animals.
2. The qualities and functions of living organisms

1. The stiffened body-wall which forms a cup-shaped capsule inclosing the tentacled polypide in the Polyzoa.
2. In colonial bryozoans, the body wall, a generally secreted gelatinous, chitinoid, or calcareous covering of individual zooids.
3. The skeleton of a zooid, comprised of calcareous layers of zooidal walls and connected zooidal structures.
4. In Phylactolaemata, comprised of any nonliving secreted parts of the body.

The study of the relationships between animals and their environments; animal ecology.