释义 |
zonite Zool.|ˈzəʊnaɪt| [ad. mod.L. zōnītēs, f. L. zōna zone n.: see -ite1.] 1. A snail of the genus Zonites.
1860All Year Round No. 43. 390 Porcelain Zonites that lived two years and a half without aliment. 2. Any of the body-rings of a segmented animal, as an arthropod or annelid. Hence zoˈnitic a.
1880Pascoe Zool. Class. (ed. 2) 297 Zonites, Somites, or Metameres. 1888Huxley & Martin's Pract. Biol. 241 Each somite is subdivided externally into at least two lesser divisions or zonites. 1888J. R. A. Davis Biol. 161 The zonitic constrictions. |