Zool. [ad. mod. L. zōnitēs, f. L. zōna ZONE sb.: see -ITE1.]

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  1.  A snail of the genus Zonites.

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1860.  All Year Round, No. 43. 390. Porcelain Zonites that lived two years and a half without aliment.

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  2.  Any of the body-rings of a segmented animal, as an arthropod or annelid. Hence Zonitic a.

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1880.  Pascoe, Zool. Class. (ed. 2), 297. Zonites, Somites, or Metameres.

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1883.  Huxley & Martin’s Pract. Biol., 241. Each somite is subdivided externally into at least two lesser divisions or zonites.

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1888.  J. R. A. Davis, Biol., 161. The zonitic constrictions.

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