zoniferous

English

Etymology

zone +‎ -i- +‎ -ferous

Adjective

zoniferous

1. Composed of many zones or layers.
   • 1884, John Sterling Kingsley, Elliott Coues, The Standard Natural History, volume 5, page 50:

     The Kabassous, or Zenurines, have the third as well as the fourth and fifth metacarpals abbreviated and broad, and the proximal phalanges are suppressed or united with the metacarpas, while the distal phalanx of the middle digit is much enlarged, and those of the fourth and fifth not very much smaller; the bucklers are more zoniferous than the Dasypodines, and the tail is almost naked; the teeth are in normal number (1/2 on each side).

   • 1921, Arthur Hastings Grant, Harold Sinley Buttenheim, The American City - Volume 25, page 213:

     If it continues to be so used, the next logical step will be to speak of town planners as zonists, and to describe different cities as zonate, zoniferous, or zonular, as the case may be.

   • 2006, Jeffery Kincaid, Dymensional Music: A New Music for a New Millennium, page 110:

     You are directed to Dymensional Music, quick talk to take you off the plan it and to the zoniferous Frato Steer. Phat! The Layers utilize class action, eye vocktaine rhythm, causmickulous waves of sound and vocals on top of strong anamalous strains of lenghened Light Fantastique, definitely in the Lineage; and then, if you can sincerely hear in The Zone with the Emeriti, you will find where hipness really goes interesting, the influence of Beethoven and Wagner perhaps?

   • 2010, Changkuan Zhang, Hongwu Tang, Advances in Water Resources & Hydraulic Engineering:

     Zoniferous and layered variations in the whole region are controlled by rainfall, seawater tidal effects, etc.

2. (psychology) Pertaining to or based on the zone of freedom of movement (the possible actions that are available at the present time), the zone of promoted action (the preference for and highlighting of specific actions), and the zone of proximal development (the set of immediate next possibilities, given the other two zones).
   • 1997, Derek Edwards, Teaching, learning and classroom discourse, page 25:

     The zoniferous canalization process takes place both at the level of immediate actions, and at the level of semiotic mediation.

   • 1997, Jaan Valsiner, Culture and the Development of Children's Action, page 318:

     Instead of describing the style of parenting that is attributable to the parents' personalities, the zoniferous view of the process of development affords description of conditions in parent-child-environment relationships that are interpreted in everyday language in the terminology of the static qualities of permissiveness or restrictiveness.