‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_; life. ] (Zool.) A peculiar larval stage of certain decapod Crustacea, especially of crabs and certain Anomura. [ Written also zoaea. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
☞ In this stage the anterior part of the body is relatively large, and usually bears three or four long spines. The years are conspicuous, and the antennae and jaws are long, fringed organs used in swimming. The thoracic legs are undeveloped or rudimentary, the abdomen long, slender, and often without appendages. The zoea, after casting its shell, changes to a megalops. [ 1913 Webster ]
[ So called after Friedrich Zöllner, a German physicist. ] Parallel lines that are made to appear convergent or divergent by means of oblique intersections. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]
n. [ Gr. &unr_; life + &unr_; turning, from &unr_; to turn. ] An optical toy, in which figures made to revolve on the inside of a cylinder, and viewed through slits in its circumference, appear like a single figure passing through a series of natural motions as if animated or mechanically moved. [ 1913 Webster ]
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