zoomachy

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noun

A fight between or against animals.

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Meanings

nounzoomachy (plural zoomachies)

plural zoomachies

  1. rareA fight between or against animals.
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    Only the bull attacking the lion on the Ashmolean seal resembles an eastern type, its head down and limbs firmly on the ground. […] On this seal, Minoan-inspired combats, engraved in Minoan style, are set in a Near Eastern environment and arranged in a triangular composition that is proper for Syrian zoomachies.

    2008, Joan Aruz, Marks of Distinction: Seals and Cultural Exchange Between the Aegean and the Orient (ca. 2600–1360 B.C.), Mainz: Verlag Philipp von Zabern, →ISBN, page 177

Origin

From zoo- + -machy.

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APA

zoomachy. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/zoomachy

MLA

“zoomachy.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/zoomachy. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “zoomachy,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/zoomachy.

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