Zonal

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Of or associated with a zone.
  • adj. Divided into zones.
  • adj. Geology Of or relating to soil characterized by well-developed horizons, reflecting the type of vegetation the soil supports and the climate to which it is exposed.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Divided into zones.
  • adj. Related to, associated with, or similar to zones.
  • adj. Roughly longitudinal movement of air or ocean currents (east to west, or west to east).
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Of or pertaining to a zone; having the form of a zone or zones.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • In phytogeography, in or relating to œcological zones or belts. See zonc, 8.
  • Having the character of a zone or belt.
  • Of or pertaining to the rings, somites, or body-segments of an articulate or annulose animal; arthromeric; metameric: as, zonal symmetry, the serial homology or metameric symmetry of a segmented animal, as an arthropod or an annelid. See symmetry, 5 .
  • In crystallography, arranged in zones: as, the zonal structure of a mineral.
  • In botany, noting that view of a diatom in which the zone or suture of the valves is presented to the eye—the “front view” of some writers.
  • In horticulture, marked on the leaves with a zone or circle, as many pelargoniums, also called horscshoe geraniums.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. associated with or divided into zones
  • adj. relating to or of the nature of a zone
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    zonary    arthromeric    metameric   
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