| 单词 | zoon |
| 释义 | ▪ I. ‖ zoon, n. Biol.|ˈzəʊɒn|
Pl. zoa |ˈzəʊə|.
[mod.L. (Herbert Spencer), a. Gr. ζῷον animal.]
An organism scientifically regarded as a complete animal, i.e. one which is the total product of an impregnated ovum, whether constituting a single being as in the higher animals, or a number of distinct beings (zooids) as in the successive asexual generations of aphides or the various ‘persons’ that make up a compound or ‘colonial’ animal.
1864H. Spencer Princ. Biol. §73 A zoological individual is constituted either by any such single animal as a mammal or bird, which may properly claim the title of a zoon, or by any such group of animals as the numerous Medusæ that have been developed from the same egg, which are to be severally distinguished as zooids.
▪ II. zoon, v. (and int.) U.S. colloq.|zuːn|
[Echoic; cf. zoom v.]
a. intr. To make a humming or buzzing sound; to move quickly.
b. trans. To (cause to) travel with such a sound; to propel. Also as int. Hence ˈzooning vbl. n. (also applied spec. in Black English to a style of preaching and response characterized by the repetition of words and phrases with tonal variation).
1883J. C. Harris Nights with Uncle Remus xxxvii. 224 Bimeby Brer Rabbit year de skeeters come zoonin' ‘roun’, en claimin' kin wid 'im. 1909Dialect Notes III. 391 Zoon, v.i. and tr., to make a humming or buzzing sound, to cause to make such a sound. ‘That rock came zoonin' by my head.’ ‘Watch me zoon this rock.’ 1911M. Johnston Long Roll xv. 197 Zoon—Zoon—Zoon! O Lord! listen to that shell. 1922Outward Bound Nov. 137/1 The zoonings and ploppings of blundering winged intruders. 1950W. L. James in Phylon XVI. i. 19 The prayer maker is too full for any utterance which is not colored tonally by his emotions. This is called ‘Zooning’. 1977J. L. Dillard Lexicon Black Eng. iii. 55 The ‘cries’..may come relatively early in the [church] service and show the importance of tonal phenomena in the Black sermon. There is even a term for one such practice: zooning, ‘crying (a word or phrase) over and over with variations’. |
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