• Zoophite

    Full definition of zoophite

    Noun

    zoophite

    (plural zoophites)
    1. Alternative spelling of en
      • 1884, Geological Society of London, Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London, 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, 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, The first species was the zoophite, a compound of vegetable and animal life, ... Succeeding the zoophite came the mollusks and various hard-shelled animals ...
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