Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Composed of many zones or belts: used by Sir D. Brewster to note burning-lenses composed of pieces united in rings.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Consisting of many zones or rings.
- adjective (Opt.) a lens made up of pieces arranged zones or rings, -- used in the lanterns of lighthouses.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Consisting of many
zones orrings .
Etymologies
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poly- + zonal
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Examples
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Many polyzonal, boreal, and hypoarctic species have ranges that extend into the Arctic.
Implications of current species distributions for future biotic change in the Arctic 2009
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