Dictionary Z

• Za Dictionary Z - noun An old solfeggio name for B flat; the seventh harmonic, as heard in the or aeolian string; - so called by Tartini. It was long considered a false, but is the true note of the chord of the flat seventh.
• Zabaism Dictionary Z - noun Alt. of Zabism.
• Zabism Dictionary Z - noun See Sabianism.
• Zabian Dictionary Z - adjective & noun See Sabian.
• Zacco Dictionary Z - noun See Zocco.
• Zachun Dictionary Z - noun An oil pressed by the Arabs from the fruit of a small thorny tree (Balanites Aegyptiaca), and sold to piligrims for a healing ointment.
• Zaerthe Dictionary Z - noun Same as Z/rthe.
• Zaffer Dictionary Z - noun A pigment obtained, usually by roasting cobalt glance with sand or quartz, as a dark earthy powder. It consists of crude cobalt oxide, or of an impure cobalt arseniate. It is used in porcelain painting, and in enameling pottery, to produce a blue color, and is often confounded with smalt, from which, however, it is distinct, as it contains no potash. The name is often loosely applied to mixtures of zaffer proper with silica, or oxides of iron, manganese, etc.
• Zaim Dictionary Z - noun A Turkish chief who supports a mounted militia bearing the same name.
• Zaimet Dictionary Z - noun A district from which a Zaim draws his revenue.
• Zain Dictionary Z - noun A horse of a dark color, neither gray nor white, and having no spots.
• Zalambdodont Dictionary Z - adjective Of or pertaining to a tribe (Zalambdodonta) of Insectivora in which the molar teeth have but one V-shaped ridge.
• Zamang Dictionary Z - noun An immense leguminous tree (Pithecolobium Saman) of Venezuela. Its branches form a hemispherical mass, often one hundred and eighty feet across. The sweet pulpy pods are used commonly for feeding cattle. Also called rain tree.
• Zambos Dictionary Z - pleural of Zambo.
• Zambo Dictionary Z - noun The child of a mulatto and a negro; also, the child of an Indian and a negro; colloquially or humorously, a negro; a sambo.
• Zamia Dictionary Z - noun A genus of cycadaceous plants, having the appearance of low palms, but with exogenous wood. See Coontie, and Illust. of Strobile.
• Zamindar Dictionary Z - noun A landowner; also, a collector of land revenue; now, usually, a kind of feudatory recognized as an actual proprietor so long as he pays to the government a certain fixed revenue.
• Zamindary Dictionary Z - noun Alt. of Zamindari.
• Zamindari Dictionary Z - noun The jurisdiction of a zamindar; the land possessed by a zamindar.
• Zamite Dictionary Z - noun A fossil cycad of the genus Zamia.
• Zamouse Dictionary Z - noun A West African buffalo (Bubalus brachyceros) having short horns depressed at the base, and large ears fringed internally with three rows of long hairs. It is destitute of a dewlap. Called also short-horned buffalo, and bush cow.
• Zampogna Dictionary Z - noun A sort of bagpipe formerly in use among Italian peasants. It is now almost obsolete.
• Zander Dictionary Z - noun A European pike perch (Stizostedion lucioperca) allied to the wall-eye; - called also sandari, sander, sannat, schill, and zant.
• Zandmole Dictionary Z - noun The sand mole.
• Zante Dictionary Z - noun See Zantewood.
• Zante currant Dictionary Z - A kind of seedless grape or raisin; - so called from Zante, one of the Ionian Islands.
• Zantewood Dictionary Z - noun A yellow dyewood; fustet; - called also zante, and zante fustic. See Fustet, and the Note under Fustic.
• Zantiot Dictionary Z - noun A native or inhabitant of Zante, one of the Ionian Islands.
• Zanies Dictionary Z - pleural of Zany.
• Zany Dictionary Z - noun A merry-andrew; a buffoon.
• Zanyism Dictionary Z - noun State or character of a zany; buffoonery.
• Zaphara Dictionary Z - noun Zaffer.
• Zaphrentis Dictionary Z - noun An extinct genus of cyathophylloid corals common in the Paleozoic formations. It is cup-shaped with numerous septa, and with a deep pit in one side of the cup.
• Zapotilla Dictionary Z - noun See Sapodilla.
• Zaptiah Dictionary Z - noun A Turkish policeman.
• Zarathustrian Dictionary Z - adjective Alt. of Zarathustric.
• Zarathustric Dictionary Z - adjective Of or pertaining to Zarathustra, or Zoroaster; Zoroastrian.
• Zarathustrism Dictionary Z - noun See Zoroastrianism.
• Zaratite Dictionary Z - noun A hydrous carbonate of nickel occurring as an emerald-green incrustation on chromite; - called also emerald nickel.
• Zareba Dictionary Z - noun An improvised stockade; especially, one made of thorn bushes, etc.
• Zarnich Dictionary Z - noun Native sulphide of arsenic, including sandarach, or realgar, and orpiment.
• Zarthe Dictionary Z - noun A European bream (Abramis vimba).
• Zati Dictionary Z - noun A species of macaque (Macacus pileatus) native of India and Ceylon. It has a crown of long erect hair, and tuft of radiating hairs on the back of the head. Called also capped macaque.
• Zauschneria Dictionary Z - noun A genus of flowering plants. Zauschneria Californica is a suffrutescent perennial, with showy red flowers much resembling those of the garden fuchsia.
• Zax Dictionary Z - noun A tool for trimming and puncturing roofing slates.
• Zayat Dictionary Z - noun A public shed, or portico, for travelers, worshipers, etc.
• Zea Dictionary Z - noun A genus of large grasses of which the Indian corn (Zea Mays) is the only species known. Its origin is not yet ascertained. See Maize.
• Zeal Dictionary Z - noun Passionate ardor in the pursuit of anything; eagerness in favor of a person or cause; ardent and active interest; engagedness; enthusiasm; fervor.
• Zealant Dictionary Z - noun One who is zealous; a zealot; an enthusiast.
• Zealed Dictionary Z - adjective Full of zeal; characterized by zeal.
• Zealful Dictionary Z - adjective Full of zeal.
• Zealless Dictionary Z - adjective Wanting zeal.
• Zealot Dictionary Z - noun One who is zealous; one who engages warmly in any cause, and pursues his object with earnestness and ardor; especially, one who is overzealous, or carried away by his zeal; one absorbed in devotion to anything; an enthusiast; a fanatical partisan.
• Zealotical Dictionary Z - adjective Like, or suitable to, a zealot; ardently zealous.
• Zealotism Dictionary Z - noun The character or conduct of a zealot; zealotry.
• Zealotist Dictionary Z - noun A zealot.
• Zealotry Dictionary Z - noun The character and behavior of a zealot; excess of zeal; fanatical devotion to a cause.
• Zealous Dictionary Z - adjective Filled with, or characterized by, zeal; warmly engaged, or ardent, in behalf of an object.
• Zebec Dictionary Z - noun See Xebec.
• Zebra Dictionary Z - noun Either one of two species of South African wild horses remarkable for having the body white or yellowish white, and conspicuously marked with dark brown or brackish bands.
• Zebrawood Dictionary Z - noun A kind of cabinet wood having beautiful black, brown, and whitish stripes, the timber of a tropical American tree (Connarus Guianensis).
• Zebrine Dictionary Z - adjective Pertaining to, or resembling, the zebra.
• Zebu Dictionary Z - noun A bovine mammal (Ros Indicus) extensively domesticated in India, China, the East Indies, and East Africa. It usually has short horns, large pendulous ears, slender legs, a large dewlap, and a large, prominent hump over the shoulders; but these characters vary in different domestic breeds, which range in size from that of the common ox to that of a large mastiff.
• Zebub Dictionary Z - noun A large noxious fly of Abyssinia, which like the tsetse fly, is destructive to cattle.
• Zechin Dictionary Z - noun See Sequin.
• Zechstein Dictionary Z - noun The upper division of the Permian (Dyas) of Europe. The prevailing rock is a magnesian limestone.
• Zed Dictionary Z - noun The letter Z; - called also zee, and formerly izzard.
• Zedoary Dictionary Z - noun A medicinal substance obtained in the East Indies, having a fragrant smell, and a warm, bitter, aromatic taste. It is used in medicine as a stimulant.
• Zeekoe Dictionary Z - noun A hippopotamus.
• Zehner Dictionary Z - noun An Austrian silver coin equal to ten kreutzers, or about five cents.
• Zein Dictionary Z - noun A nitrogenous substance of the nature of gluten, obtained from the seeds of Indian corn (Zea) as a soft, yellowish, amorphous substance.
• Zemindar Dictionary Z - noun Same as Zamindar.
• Zemindary Dictionary Z - noun Alt. of Zemindari.
• Zemindari Dictionary Z - noun Same as Zamindary.
• Zemni Dictionary Z - noun The blind mole rat (Spalax typhlus), native of Eastern Europe and Asia. Its eyes and ears are rudimentary, and its fur is soft and brownish, more or less tinged with gray. It constructs extensive burrows.
• Zenana Dictionary Z - noun The part of a dwelling appropriated to women.
• Zend Dictionary Z - noun Properly, the translation and exposition in the Huzv/resh, or literary Pehlevi, language, of the Avesta, the Zoroastrian sacred writings; as commonly used, the language (an ancient Persian dialect) in which the Avesta is written.
• Zend-Avesta Dictionary Z - noun The sacred writings of the ancient Persian religion, attributed to Zoroaster, but chiefly of a later date.
• Zendik Dictionary Z - noun An atheist or unbeliever; - name given in the East to those charged with disbelief of any revealed religion, or accused of magical heresies.
• Zenick Dictionary Z - noun A South African burrowing mammal (Suricata tetradactyla), allied to the civets. It is grayish brown, with yellowish transverse stripes on the back. Called also suricat.
• Zenik Dictionary Z - noun See Zenick.
• Zenith Dictionary Z - noun That point in the visible celestial hemisphere which is vertical to the spectator; the point of the heavens directly overhead; - opposed to nadir.
• Zenithal Dictionary Z - adjective Of or pertaining to the zenith.
• Zeolite Dictionary Z - noun A term now used to designate any one of a family of minerals, hydrous silicates of alumina, with lime, soda, potash, or rarely baryta. Here are included natrolite, stilbite, analcime, chabazite, thomsonite, heulandite, and others. These species occur of secondary origin in the cavities of amygdaloid, basalt, and lava, also, less frequently, in granite and gneiss. So called because many of these species intumesce before the blowpipe.
• Zeolitic Dictionary Z - adjective Of or pertaining to a zeolite; consisting of, or resembling, a zeolite.
• Zeolitiform Dictionary Z - adjective Having the form of a zeolite.
• Zephyr Dictionary Z - noun The west wind; poetically, any soft, gentle breeze.
• Zephyrus Dictionary Z - noun The west wind, or zephyr; - usually personified, and made the most mild and gentle of all the sylvan deities.
• Zequin Dictionary Z - noun See Sequin.
• Zerda Dictionary Z - noun The fennec.
• Zeriba Dictionary Z - noun Same as Zareba.
• Zeros Dictionary Z - pleural of Zero.
• Zeroes Dictionary Z - pleural of Zero.
• Zero Dictionary Z - noun A cipher; nothing; naught.
• Zest Dictionary Z - noun A piece of orange or lemon peel, or the aromatic oil which may be squeezed from such peel, used to give flavor to liquor, etc.
• Zested Dictionary Z - imperative & past particle of Zest.
• Zesting Dictionary Z - past particle & verb noun of Zest.
• Zeta Dictionary Z - noun A Greek letter corresponding to our z.
• Zetetic Dictionary Z - adjective Seeking; proceeding by inquiry.
• Zetetics Dictionary Z - adjective A branch of algebra which relates to the direct search for unknown quantities.
• Zeuglodon Dictionary Z - noun A genus of extinct Eocene whales, remains of which have been found in the Gulf States. The species had very long and slender bodies and broad serrated teeth. See Phocodontia.
• Zeuglodont Dictionary Z - Any species of Zeuglodonta.
• Zeuglodonta Dictionary Z - noun plural Same as Phocodontia.
• Zeugma Dictionary Z - noun A figure by which an adjective or verb, which agrees with a nearer word, is, by way of supplement, referred also to another more remote; as, "hic illius arma, hic currus fuit;" where fuit, which agrees directly with currus, is referred also to arma.
• Zeugmatic Dictionary Z - adjective Of or pertaining to zeugma; characterized by zeugma.
• Zeugobranchiata Dictionary Z - noun plural Same as Zygobranchia.
• Zeus Dictionary Z - noun The chief deity of the Greeks, and ruler of the upper world (cf. Hades). He was identified with Jupiter.
• Zeuzerian Dictionary Z - noun Any one of a group of bombycid moths of which the genus Zeuzera is the type. Some of these moths are of large size. The goat moth is an example.
• Zeylanite Dictionary Z - noun See Ceylanite.
• Zibet Dictionary Z - noun Alt. of Zibeth.
• Zibeth Dictionary Z - noun A carnivorous mammal (Viverra zibetha) closely allied to the civet, from which it differs in having the spots on the body less distinct, the throat whiter, and the black rings on the tail more numerous.
• Ziega Dictionary Z - noun Curd produced from milk by adding acetic acid, after rennet has ceased to cause coagulation.
• Zietrisikite Dictionary Z - noun A mineral wax, vert similar to ozocerite. It is found at Zietrisika, Moldavia, whence its name.
• Zif Dictionary Z - noun The second month of the Jewish ecclesiastical year, corresponding to our May.
• Zigger Dictionary Z - intransitive verb Alt. of Zighyr.
• Zighyr Dictionary Z - intransitive verb Same as Sicker.
• Zigzag Dictionary Z - noun Something that has short turns or angles.
• Zigzagged Dictionary Z - imperative & past particle of Zigzag.
• Zigzagging Dictionary Z - past particle & verb noun of Zigzag.
• Zigzaggery Dictionary Z - noun The quality or state of being zigzag; crookedness.
• Zigzaggy Dictionary Z - adjective Having sharp turns.
• Zilla Dictionary Z - noun A low, thorny, suffrutescent, crucifeous plant (Zilla myagroides) found in the deserts of Egypt. Its leaves are boiled in water, and eaten, by the Arabs.
• Zillah Dictionary Z - noun A district or local division, as of a province.
• Zimb Dictionary Z - noun A large, venomous, two-winged fly, native of Abyssinia. It is allied to the tsetse fly, and, like the latter, is destructive to cattle.
• Ziment-water Dictionary Z - noun A kind of water found in copper mines; water impregnated with copper.
• Zinc Dictionary Z - noun An abundant element of the magnesium-cadmium group, extracted principally from the minerals zinc blende, smithsonite, calamine, and franklinite, as an easily fusible bluish white metal, which is malleable, especially when heated. It is not easily oxidized in moist air, and hence is used for sheeting, coating galvanized iron, etc. It is used in making brass, britannia, and other alloys, and is also largely consumed in electric batteries. Symbol Zn. Atomic weight 64.9.
• Zincked Dictionary Z - imperative & past particle of Zinc.
• Zinced Dictionary Z - of Zinc.
• Zincking Dictionary Z - past particle & verb noun of Zinc.
• Zincing Dictionary Z - of Zinc.
• Zincane Dictionary Z - noun Zinc chloride.
• Zincic Dictionary Z - adjective Pertaining to, containing, or resembling, zinc; zincous.
• Zincide Dictionary Z - noun A binary compound of zinc.
• Zinciferous Dictionary Z - adjective Containing or affording zinc.
• Zincification Dictionary Z - noun The act or process of applying zinc; the condition of being zincified, or covered with zinc; galvanization.
• Zincify Dictionary Z - verb transitive To coat or impregnate with zinc.
• Zincite Dictionary Z - noun Native zinc oxide; a brittle, translucent mineral, of an orange-red color; - called also red zinc ore, and red oxide of zinc.
• Zincky Dictionary Z - adjective Pertaining to zinc, or having its appearance.
• Zinco- Dictionary Z - A combining form from zinc; in chemistry, designating zinc as an element of certain double compounds. Also used adjectively.
• Zincode Dictionary Z - noun The positive electrode of an electrolytic cell; anode.
• Zincographer Dictionary Z - noun An engraver on zinc.
• Zincongraphic Dictionary Z - adjective Alt. of Zincongraphical.
• Zincongraphical Dictionary Z - adjective Of or pertaining to zincography; as, zincographic processes.
• Zincography Dictionary Z - noun The art or process of engraving or etching on zinc, in which the design is left in relief in the style of a wood cut, the rest of the ground being eaten away by acid.
• Zincoid Dictionary Z - adjective Pertaining to, or resembling, zinc; - said of the electricity of the zincous plate in connection with a copper plate in a voltaic circle; also, designating the positive pole.
• Zinco-polar Dictionary Z - adjective Electrically polarized like the surface of the zinc presented to the acid in a battery, which has zincous affinity.
• Zincous Dictionary Z - adjective Of, pertaining to, or containing, zinc; zincic; as, zincous salts.
• Zingari Dictionary Z - pleural of Zingaro.
• Zingaro Dictionary Z - noun A gypsy.
• Zingel Dictionary Z - noun A small, edible, freshwater European perch (Aspro zingel), having a round, elongated body and prominent snout.
• Zingiberaceous Dictionary Z - adjective Of or pertaining to ginger, or to a tribe (Zingibereae) of endogenous plants of the order Scitamineae. See Scitamineous.
• Zink Dictionary Z - noun See Zinc.
• Zinkenite Dictionary Z - noun A steel-gray metallic mineral, a sulphide of antimony and lead.
• Zinky Dictionary Z - adjective See Zincky.
• Zinnia Dictionary Z - noun Any plant of the composite genus Zinnia, Mexican herbs with opposite leaves and large gay-colored blossoms. Zinnia elegans is the commonest species in cultivation.
• Zinnwaldite Dictionary Z - noun A kind of mica containing lithium, often associated with tin ore.
• Zinsang Dictionary Z - noun The delundung.
• Zinziberaceous Dictionary Z - adjective Same as Zingiberaceous.
• Zion Dictionary Z - noun A hill in Jerusalem, which, after the capture of that city by the Israelites, became the royal residence of David and his successors.
• Ziphioid Dictionary Z - noun See Xiphioid.
• Zirco- Dictionary Z - A combining form (also used adjectively) designating zirconium as an element of certain double compounds; zircono-; as in zircofluoric acid, sodium zircofluoride.
• Zircofluoride Dictionary Z - noun A double fluoride of zirconium and hydrogen, or some other positive element or radical; as, zircofluoride of sodium.
• Zircon Dictionary Z - noun A mineral occurring in tetragonal crystals, usually of a brown or gray color. It consists of silica and zirconia. A red variety, used as a gem, is called hyacinth. Colorless, pale-yellow or smoky-brown varieties from Ceylon are called jargon.
• Zircona Dictionary Z - noun Zirconia.
• Zirconate Dictionary Z - noun A salt of zirconic acid.
• Zirconia Dictionary Z - noun The oxide of zirconium, obtained as a white powder, and possessing both acid and basic properties. On account of its infusibility, and brilliant luminosity when incandescent, it is used as an ingredient of sticks for the Drummomd light.
• Zirconic Dictionary Z - adjective Pertaining to, containing, or resembling, zirconium; as, zirconic oxide; zirconic compounds.
• Zirconium Dictionary Z - noun A rare element of the carbon-silicon group, intermediate between the metals and nonmetals, obtained from the mineral zircon as a dark sooty powder, or as a gray metallic crystalline substance. Symbol Zr. Atomic weight, 90.4.
• Zircono Dictionary Z - See Zirco-.
• Zirconoid Dictionary Z - noun A double eight-sided pyramid, a form common with tetragonal crystals; - so called because this form often occurs in crystals of zircon.
• Zither Dictionary Z - noun An instrument of music used in Austria and Germany. It has from thirty to forty wires strung across a shallow sounding-board, which lies horizontally on a table before the performer, who uses both hands in playing on it. Not to be confounded with the old lute-shaped cittern, or cithern..
• Zittern Dictionary Z - noun See Cittern.
• Zizania Dictionary Z - noun A genus of grasses including Indian rice. See Indian rice, under Rice.
• Zizel Dictionary Z - noun The suslik.
• Zoanthacea Dictionary Z - noun plural A suborder of Actinaria, including Zoanthus and allied genera, which are permanently attached by their bases.
• Zoantharia Dictionary Z - noun plural Same as Anthozoa.
• Zoantharian Dictionary Z - adjective Of or pertaining to the Zoantharia.
• Zoanthodeme Dictionary Z - noun The zooids of a compound anthozoan, collectively.
• Zoanthoid Dictionary Z - adjective Of or pertaining to the Zoanthacea.
• Zoanthropy Dictionary Z - noun A kind of monomania in which the patient believes himself transformed into one of the lower animals.
• Zoanthus Dictionary Z - noun A genus of Actinaria, including numerous species, found mostly in tropical seas. The zooids or polyps resemble small, elongated actinias united together at their bases by fleshy stolons, and thus forming extensive groups. The tentacles are small and bright colored.
• Zobo Dictionary Z - noun A kind of domestic cattle reared in Asia for its flesh and milk. It is supposed to be a hybrid between the zebu and the yak.
• Zocle Dictionary Z - noun Same as Socle.
• Zocco Dictionary Z - noun Alt. of Zoccolo.
• Zoccolo Dictionary Z - noun Same as Socle.
• Zodiac Dictionary Z - noun An imaginary belt in the heavens, 16? or 18? broad, in the middle of which is the ecliptic, or sun's path. It comprises the twelve constellations, which one constituted, and from which were named, the twelve signs of the zodiac.
• Zodiacal Dictionary Z - adjective Of or pertaining to the zodiac; situated within the zodiac; as, the zodiacal planets.
• Zoea Dictionary Z - noun A peculiar larval stage of certain decapod Crustacea, especially of crabs and certain Anomura.
• Zoetrope Dictionary Z - noun 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.
• Zohar Dictionary Z - noun A Jewish cabalistic book attributed by tradition to Rabbi Simon ben Yochi, who lived about the end of the 1st century, a. d. Modern critics believe it to be a compilation of the 13th century.
• Zoic Dictionary Z - adjective Of or pertaining to animals, or animal life.
• Zoide Dictionary Z - noun See Meride.
• Zoilean Dictionary Z - adjective Having the characteristic of Zoilus, a bitter, envious, unjust critic, who lived about 270 years before Christ.
• Zoilism Dictionary Z - noun Resemblance to Zoilus in style or manner; carping criticism; detraction.
• Zoisite Dictionary Z - noun A grayish or whitish mineral occurring in orthorhombic, prismatic crystals, also in columnar masses. It is a silicate of alumina and lime, and is allied to epidote.
• Zokor Dictionary Z - noun An Asiatic burrowing rodent (Siphneus aspalax) resembling the mole rat. It is native of the Altai Mountains.
• Zollverein Dictionary Z - noun Literally, a customs union; specifically, applied to the several customs unions successively formed under the leadership of Prussia among certain German states for establishing liberty of commerce among themselves and common tariff on imports, exports, and transit.
• Zomboruk Dictionary Z - noun See Zumbooruk.
• Zonae Dictionary Z - pleural of Zona.
• Zona Dictionary Z - noun A zone or band; a layer.
• Zonal Dictionary Z - adjective Of or pertaining to a zone; having the form of a zone or zones.
• Zonar Dictionary Z - noun A belt or girdle which the Christians and Jews of the Levant were obliged to wear to distinguish them from Mohammedans.
• Zonaria Dictionary Z - noun plural A division of Mammalia in which the placenta is zonelike.
• Zonate Dictionary Z - adjective Divided by parallel planes; as, zonate tetraspores, found in certain red algae.
• Zone Dictionary Z - noun A girdle; a cincture.
• Zoned Dictionary Z - adjective Wearing a zone, or girdle.
• Zoneless Dictionary Z - adjective Not having a zone; ungirded.
• Zonnar Dictionary Z - noun See Zonar.
• Zonular Dictionary Z - adjective Of or pertaining to a zone; zone-shaped.
• Zonule Dictionary Z - noun A little zone, or girdle.
• Zonulet Dictionary Z - noun A zonule.
• Zonure Dictionary Z - noun Any one of several of South African lizards of the genus Zonura, common in rocky situations.
• Zoo- Dictionary Z - A combining form from Gr. zwo^,n an animal, as in zoogenic, zoology, etc.
• Zoochemical Dictionary Z - adjective Pertaining to zoochemistry.
• Zoochemistry Dictionary Z - noun Animal chemistry; particularly, the description of the chemical compounds entering into the composition of the animal body, in distinction from biochemistry.
• Zoochemy Dictionary Z - noun Animal chemistry; zoochemistry.
• Zoochlorella Dictionary Z - noun One of the small green granulelike bodies found in the interior of certain stentors, hydras, and other invertebrates.
• Zoocyst Dictionary Z - noun A cyst formed by certain Protozoa and unicellular plants which the contents divide into a large number of granules, each of which becomes a germ.
• Zoocytia Dictionary Z - pleural of Zoocytium.
• Zoocytium Dictionary Z - noun The common support, often branched, of certain species of social Infusoria.
• Zoodendria Dictionary Z - pleural of Zoodendrium.
• Zoodendrium Dictionary Z - noun The branched, and often treelike, support of the colonies of certain Infusoria.
• Zooecia Dictionary Z - pleural of Zooecium.
• Zooecium Dictionary Z - noun One of the cells or tubes which inclose the feeling zooids of Bryozoa. See Illust. of Sea Moss.
• Zooerythrine Dictionary Z - noun A peculiar organic red coloring matter found in the feathers of various birds.
• Zoogamous Dictionary Z - adjective Of or pertaining zoogamy.
• Zoogamy Dictionary Z - noun The sexual reproduction of animals.
• Zoogenic Dictionary Z - adjective Of or pertaining to zoogeny, animal production.
• Zoogeny Dictionary Z - noun Alt. of Zoogony.
• Zoogony Dictionary Z - noun The doctrine of the formation of living beings.
• Zoogeography Dictionary Z - noun The study or description of the geographical distribution of animals.
• Zoogeographical Dictionary Z - adjective Of or pertaining to zoography.
• Zoogloea Dictionary Z - noun A colony or mass of bacteria imbedded in a viscous gelatinous substance. The zoogloea is characteristic of a transitory stage through which rapidly multiplying bacteria pass in the course of their evolution. Also used adjectively.
• Zoographer Dictionary Z - noun One who describes animals, their forms and habits.
• Zoographic Dictionary Z - adjective Alt. of Zoographical.
• Zoographical Dictionary Z - adjective Of or pertaining to the description of animals.
• Zoographist Dictionary Z - noun A zoographer.
• Zoography Dictionary Z - noun A description of animals, their forms and habits.
• Zooid Dictionary Z - adjective Pertaining to, or resembling, an animal.
• Zooidal Dictionary Z - adjective Of or pertaining to a zooid; as, a zooidal form.
• Zoolatry Dictionary Z - noun The worship of animals.
• Zoologer Dictionary Z - noun A zoologist.
• Zoological Dictionary Z - adjective Of or pertaining to zoology, or the science of animals.
• Zoologically Dictionary Z - adverb In a zoological manner; according to the principles of zoology.
• Zoologist Dictionary Z - noun One who is well versed in zoology.
• Zoologies Dictionary Z - pleural of Zoology.
• Zoology Dictionary Z - noun That part of biology which relates to the animal kingdom, including the structure, embryology, evolution, classification, habits, and distribution of all animals, both living and extinct.
• Zoomelanin Dictionary Z - noun A pigment giving the black color to the feathers of many birds.
• Zoomorphic Dictionary Z - adjective Of or pertaining to zoomorphism.
• Zoomorphism Dictionary Z - noun The transformation of men into beasts.
• Zoa Dictionary Z - pleural of Zoon.
• Zoon Dictionary Z - noun An animal which is the sole product of a single egg; - opposed to zooid.
• Zoonic Dictionary Z - adjective Of or pertaining to animals; obtained from animal substances.
• Zoonite Dictionary Z - noun One of the segments of the body of an articulate animal.
• Zoonomy Dictionary Z - noun The laws of animal life, or the science which treats of the phenomena of animal life, their causes and relations.
• Zoonule Dictionary Z - noun Same as Zoonite.
• Zoopathology Dictionary Z - noun Animal pathology.
• Zoophaga Dictionary Z - noun plural An artificial group comprising various carnivorous and insectivorous animals.
• Zoophagan Dictionary Z - noun A animal that feeds on animal food.
• Zoophagous Dictionary Z - adjective Feeding on animals.
• Zoophilist Dictionary Z - noun A lover of animals.
• Zoophily Dictionary Z - noun Love of animals.
• Zoophite Dictionary Z - noun A zoophyte.
• Zoophoric Dictionary Z - adjective Bearing or supporting the figure of an animal; as, a zoophoric column.
• Zoophorous Dictionary Z - noun The part between the architrave and cornice; the frieze; - so called from the figures of animals carved upon it.
• Zoophyta Dictionary Z - noun plural An extensive artificial and heterogeneous group of animals, formerly adopted by many zoologists. It included the c/lenterates, echinoderms, sponges, Bryozoa, Protozoa, etc.
• Zoophyte Dictionary Z - intransitive verb Any one of numerous species of invertebrate animals which more or less resemble plants in appearance, or mode of growth, as the corals, gorgonians, sea anemones, hydroids, bryozoans, sponges, etc., especially any of those that form compound colonies having a branched or treelike form, as many corals and hydroids.
• Zoophytic Dictionary Z - adjective Alt. of Zoophytical.
• Zoophytical Dictionary Z - adjective Of or pertaining to zoophytes.
• Zoophytoid Dictionary Z - adjective Pertaining to, or resembling, a zoophyte.
• Zoophytological Dictionary Z - adjective Of or pertaining to zoophytology; as, zoophytological observations.
• Zoophytology Dictionary Z - noun The natural history zoophytes.
• Zoopraxiscope Dictionary Z - noun An instrument similar to, or the same as, the, the phenakistoscope, by means of which pictures projected upon a screen are made to exhibit the natural movements of animals, and the like.
• Zoopsychology Dictionary Z - noun Animal psychology.
• Zoosperm Dictionary Z - noun One of the spermatic particles; spermatozoid.
• -sporangia Dictionary Z - pleural of Zoosporangium.
• Zoosporangium Dictionary Z - noun A spore, or conceptacle containing zoospores.
• Zoospore Dictionary Z - noun A spore provided with one or more slender cilia, by the vibration of which it swims in the water. Zoospores are produced by many green, and by some olive-brown, algae. In certain species they are divided into the larger macrozoospores and the smaller microzoospores. Called also sporozoid, and swarmspore.
• Zoosporic Dictionary Z - adjective Of or pertaining to zoospores; of the nature of zoospores.
• Zootic Dictionary Z - adjective Containing the remains of organized bodies; - said of rock or soil.
• Zootomical Dictionary Z - adjective Of or pertaining to zootomy.
• Zootomist Dictionary Z - noun One who dissects animals, or is skilled in zootomy.
• Zootomy Dictionary Z - noun The dissection or the anatomy of animals; - distinguished from androtomy.
• Zootrophic Dictionary Z - adjective Of or pertaining to the nourishment of animals.
• Zoozoo Dictionary Z - noun The wood pigeon.
• Zope Dictionary Z - noun A European fresh-water bream (Abramis ballerus).
• Zopilote Dictionary Z - noun The urubu, or American black vulture.
• Zoril Dictionary Z - noun Same as Zorilla.
• Zorilla Dictionary Z - noun Either one of two species of small African carnivores of the genus Ictonyx allied to the weasels and skunks.
• Zoroastrian Dictionary Z - adjective Of or pertaining to Zoroaster, or his religious system.
• Zoroastrianism Dictionary Z - noun The religious system of Zoroaster, the legislator and prophet of the ancient Persians, which was the national faith of Persia; mazdeism. The system presupposes a good spirit (Ormuzd) and an opposing evil spirit (Ahriman). Cf. Fire worship, under Fire, and Parsee.
• Zoroastrism Dictionary Z - noun Same as Zoroastrianism.
• Zoster Dictionary Z - noun Shingles.
• Zostera Dictionary Z - noun A genus of plants of the Naiadaceae, or Pondweed family. Zostera marina is commonly known as sea wrack, and eelgrass.
• Zosterops Dictionary Z - noun A genus of birds that comprises the white-eyes. See White-eye.
• Zouave Dictionary Z - noun One of an active and hardy body of soldiers in the French service, originally Arabs, but now composed of Frenchmen who wear the Arab dress.
• Zounds Dictionary Z - interjection An exclamation formerly used as an oath, and an expression of anger or wonder.
• Zoutch Dictionary Z - verb transitive To stew, as flounders, eels, etc., with just enough or liquid to cover them.
• Zubr Dictionary Z - noun The aurochs.
• Zuche Dictionary Z - noun A stump of a tree.
• Zuchetto Dictionary Z - noun A skullcap covering the tonsure, worn under the berretta. The pope's is white; a cardinal's red; a bishop's purple; a priest's black.
• Zufolo Dictionary Z - noun A little flute or flageolet, especially that which is used to teach birds.
• Zuisin Dictionary Z - noun The American widgeon.
• Zulus Dictionary Z - noun plural The most important tribe belonging to the Kaffir race. They inhabit a region on the southeast coast of Africa, but formerly occupied a much more extensive country. They are noted for their warlike disposition, courage, and military skill.
• Zumbooruk Dictionary Z - noun A small cannon supported by a swiveled rest on the back of a camel, whence it is fired, - used in the East.
• Zumic Dictionary Z - noun Alt. of Zumometer.
• Zumological Dictionary Z - noun Alt. of Zumometer.
• Zumology Dictionary Z - noun Alt. of Zumometer.
• Zumometer Dictionary Z - noun See Zymic, Zymological, etc.
• Zu/is Dictionary Z - noun plural A tribe of Pueblo Indians occupying a village in New Mexico, on the Zu/i River.
• Zunyite Dictionary Z - noun A fluosilicate of alumina occurring in tetrahedral crystals at the Zu/i mine in Colorado.
• Zwanziger Dictionary Z - noun An Austrian silver coin equivalent to 20 kreutzers, or about 10 cents.
• Zygantra Dictionary Z - pleural of Zygantrum.
• Zygantrum Dictionary Z - noun See under Zygosphene.
• Zygapophyses Dictionary Z - pleural of Zygapophysis.
• Zygapophysis Dictionary Z - noun One of the articular processes of a vertebra, of which there are usually four, two anterior and two posterior. See under Vertebra.
• Zygenid Dictionary Z - noun Any one of numerous species of moths of the family Zygaenidae, most of which are bright colored. The wood nymph and the vine forester are examples. Also used adjectively.
• Zygobranchia Dictionary Z - noun plural A division of marine gastropods in which the gills are developed on both sides of the body and the renal organs are also paired. The abalone (Haliotis) and the keyhole limpet (Fissurella) are examples.
• Zygobranchiate Dictionary Z - adjective Of or pertaining to the Zygobranchia.
• Zygodactyl Dictionary Z - noun Alt. of Zygodactyle.
• Zygodactyle Dictionary Z - noun Any zygodactylous bird.
• Zygodactylae Dictionary Z - noun plural The zygodactylous birds. In a restricted sense applied to a division of birds which includes the barbets, toucans, honey guides, and other related birds.
• Zygodactyli Dictionary Z - noun plural Same as Scansores.
• Zygodactylic Dictionary Z - adjective Alt. of Zygodactylous.
• Zygodactylous Dictionary Z - adjective Yoke-footed; having the toes disposed in pairs; - applied to birds which have two toes before and two behind, as the parrot, cuckoo, woodpecker, etc.
• Zygoma Dictionary Z - noun The jugal, malar, or cheek bone.
• Zygomatic Dictionary Z - adjective Of, pertaining to, or in the region of, the zygoma.
• Zygomorphic Dictionary Z - adjective Alt. of Zygomorphous.
• Zygomorphous Dictionary Z - adjective Symmetrical bilaterally; - said of organisms, or parts of organisms, capable of division into two symmetrical halves only in a single plane.
• Zyophyte Dictionary Z - noun Any plant of a proposed class or grand division (Zygophytes, Zygophyta, or Zygosporeae), in which reproduction consists in the union of two similar cells. Cf. Oophyte.
• Zygosis Dictionary Z - noun Same as Conjugation.
• Zygosperm Dictionary Z - noun A spore formed by the union of the contents of two similar cells, either of the same or of distinct individual plants. Zygosperms are found in certain orders of algae and fungi.
• Zygosphene Dictionary Z - noun A median process on the front part of the neural arch of the vertebrae of most snakes and some lizards, which fits into a fossa, called the zygantrum, on the back part of the arch in front.
• Zygospore Dictionary Z - noun Same as Zygosperm.
• Zylonite Dictionary Z - noun Celluloid.
• Zymase Dictionary Z - noun A soluble ferment, or enzyme. See Enzyme.
• Zyme Dictionary Z - noun A ferment.
• Zymic Dictionary Z - adjective Pertaining to, or produced by, fermentation; - formerly, by confusion, used to designate lactic acid.
• Zymogen Dictionary Z - noun A mother substance, or antecedent, of an enzyme or chemical ferment; - applied to such substances as, not being themselves actual ferments, may by internal changes give rise to a ferment.
• Zymogene Dictionary Z - noun One of a physiological group of globular bacteria which produces fermentations of diverse nature; - distinguished from pathogene.
• Zymogenic Dictionary Z - adjective Pertaining to, or formed by, a zymogene.
• Zymologic Dictionary Z - adjective Alt. of Zymological.
• Zymological Dictionary Z - adjective Of or pertaining to zymology.
• Zymologist Dictionary Z - noun One who is skilled in zymology, or in the fermentation of liquors.
• Zymology Dictionary Z - noun A treatise on the fermentation of liquors, or the doctrine of fermentation.
• Zymome Dictionary Z - noun A glutinous substance, insoluble in alcohol, resembling legumin; - now called vegetable fibrin, vegetable albumin, or gluten casein.
• Zymometer Dictionary Z - noun Alt. of Zymosimeter.
• Zymosimeter Dictionary Z - noun An instrument for ascertaining the degree of fermentation occasioned by the mixture of different liquids, and the degree of heat which they acquire in fermentation.
• Zymophyte Dictionary Z - noun A bacteroid ferment.
• Zymose Dictionary Z - noun Invertin.
• Zymosis Dictionary Z - noun A fermentation; hence, an analogous process by which an infectious disease is believed to be developed.
• Zymotic Dictionary Z - adjective Of, pertaining to, or caused by, fermentation.
• Zythem Dictionary Z - noun See Zythum.
• Zythepsary Dictionary Z - noun A brewery.
• Zythum Dictionary Z - noun A kind of ancient malt beverage; a liquor made from malt and wheat.

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