-zoic

World English Dictionary

-zoic

—*adj combining form, —n combining form*
	indicating a geological era: Palaeozoic

[from Greek zōē life + -ic]

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American Heritage

Medical Dictionary

-zoic suff.
Relating to a specified manner of animal existence: holozoic.

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