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

A reference to a parasite (or parasites) having an animal host.

1. The study or science of the diseases of animals; animal pathology.
2. Animal diseases, especially those of lower animal forms.

Performing experiments on animals, especially the lower animals.

Feeding on animals or animal matter; carnivorous.

1. The use of drugs in the treatment of animals.
2. Effects of drugs on animals.
3. Veterinary pharmacology.

1. A lover of animals; especially one that is more fond of animals than of humans.
2. One who is opposed to any animal experimentation; also known as an antivivisectionist.

1. In biology, a plant that is pollinated by animals other than insects.
2. A strong fondness or affinity for animals and a devotion to protecting or rescuing them from human activities, e.g., vivisection, that exploit or endanger them.

1. Preferring other animals to human beings such as certain mosquitoes and dermatophytes (for example, fungi parasites).
2. In microbiology, a description of a pathogenic organism that prefers animal hosts instead of human beings.

1. Having a special fondness for animals; especially having more love for animals than for people.
2. An opposition to any animal experimentation; opposed to cruelty to animals; specifically, antivivisectionism.
3. In biology, pollination by animals; applied to plants whose seeds are disseminated by the agency of animals.
4. Animals that serve as erogenous agents, including avisodomy, bestialosadism, entomocism, necrobestialism, orphidicism, etc.

A morbid or irrational fear of animals in general or of a specific animal.

Shunning, or shunned by, animals; such as, plants protected by spines, hairs, secretions, etc.

The study of animal physiology and form.

1. The physiology of animals, as distinct from that of humans.
2. The vital physical processes and functions of animals.

Any of various invertebrate animals that resemble plants in morphology (form) or mode of life more than that of an animal; such as, the sea anemones, corals, sponges, etc.

In context: Sponges are just barely animals. In fact, they are such a borderline case that until the nineteenth century they were called zoophytes, the animal-plants. Sponges are among the most primitive forms of multicellular animal life.

1. The branch of zoology concerned with the zoophytes.
2. The biology of zoophytes; such as, sea-anemones, crinoids, corals, and sponges.