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Of or pertaining to animals, or animal life.

Of or pertaining to the Amorphozoa.

Of or pertaining to the Anthozoa.

Like or belonging to the earliest forms of animal life.

Of or pertaining to the Articulata; articulate.

the existence of animal life; formed when there was no animal life on the globe; as, the azoic. rocks. Azoic age (Geol.), the age preceding the existence of animal life, or anterior to the paleozoic tome. Azoic is also used as a noun, age being understood. See Archæan, and Eozoic.

Pertaining to, or obtained from, benzoin. Benzoic acid, or flowers of benzoin, a peculiar vegetable acid, C6H5.CO2H, obtained from benzoin, and some other balsams, by sublimation or decoction. It is also found in the urine of infants and herbivorous animals. It crystallizes in the form of white, satiny flakes; its odor…

See Cenozoic.

(Geol.) See Cenozic.

ing the tertiary, or Age of mammals, and the Quaternary, or Age of man. [Written also cænozoic, cainozoic, kainozoic.] See Geology.

See Epizoic.

Pertaining to, or consisting of, the Entozoa.

Of or pertaining to rocks or strata older than the Paleozoic, in many of which the eozoön has been found.

Living upon the exterior of another animal; ectozoic; -- said of external parasites.

Pertaining to, or including, similar forms or kinds of life; as, homoeozoic belts on the earth's surface. E. Forbes.

Of or pertaining to hylozoism.

Anterior in age to the lowest rocks which contain organic remains. Lyell.

See Cenozoic.

Of or pertaining to the Malacozoa.

Belonging, or relating, to the secondary or reptilian age, or the era between the Paleozoic and Cenozoic. See Chart of Geology.