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🇯🇵Japanese Source WordCode: JA

帯状分布

Pronunciation / Transliteration: taijou bunpu

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Zonation/ˌzoʊˈneɪ.ʃən/
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🇯🇵 Example Sentence in Japanese:

"岩礁海岸では生物の帯状分布が見られる。"

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    The distribution of plants or animals into specific zones along an altitude, depth, or environmental gradient.

    "Ecologists study the zonation of intertidal marine life along the rocky coastline."
  2. 2

    The arrangement or division of an area, such as a city or land tract, into zones for specific uses or regulations.

    "Urban zonation laws dictate which districts permit commercial rather than residential buildings."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the modern Latin root 'zona' (meaning belt, girdle, or zone), tracing back to ancient Greek 'zōnē' (ζώνη). The suffix '-ation' was added in the late 19th century within ecological and geographical contexts to describe the process of arranging or the state of being arranged in distinct zones.

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