zoniten.
/ˈzəʊnʌɪt/ Zoology.
1. A snail of the genus Zonites.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Gastropoda > [noun] > order Pulmonifera > Inoperculata > family Helicidae > member of genus Zonites
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1860 All Year Round 18 Feb. 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.
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the world > animals > animal body > general parts > [noun] > regions comprising segments > segment > body-ring of segmented animal
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > [noun] > member of > parts of > body-ring
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1880 F. P. Pascoe Zool. Classif. (ed. 2) 297 Zonites, Somites, or Metameres.
1888 Huxley & Martin's Pract. Biol. 241 Each somite is subdivided externally into at least two lesser divisions or zonites.
Derivatives
zoˈnitic adj.
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the world > animals > animal body > general parts > [adjective] > segmented > relating to body-ring
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > [adjective] > of parts of > relating to body-ring
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1888 J. R. A. Davis Biol. 161 The zonitic constrictions.
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