| Z: | Z the twentysixth and last letter of the English alphabet is a vocal consonant It is taken from the Latin letter Z which came from the Greek alphabet this having it from a Semitic source The ultimate origin is probably Egyptian Etymologically it is most closely related to s y and j as in glass glaze E yoke Gr yugum E zealous jealous See Guide to Pronunciation sectsect 273 274 |
| Za: | An old solfeggio name for B flat the seventh harmonic as heard in the or olian string so called by Tartini It was long considered a false but is the true note of the chord of the flat seventh |
| Zabaism: | See Sabianism |
| Zabian: | See Sabian |
| Zacco: | See Zocco |
| dZachun: | An oil pressed by the Arabs from the fruit of a small thorny tree Balanites 92gyptiaca and sold to piligrims for a healing ointment |
| dZaerthe: | Same as Z |
| Zaffer: | 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 |
| dZaim: | A Turkish chief who supports a mounted militia bearing the same name |
| dZaimet: | A district from which a Zaim draws his revenue |
| Zain: | A horse of a dark color neither gray nor white and having no spots |
| Zalambdodont: | Of or pertaining to a tribe Zalambdodonta of Insectivora in which the molar teeth have but one Vshaped ridge |
| Zalambdodont: | One of the Zalambdodonta The tenrec solenodon and golden moles are examples |
| dZamang: | 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 |
| Zambo: | The child of a mulatto and a negro also the child of an Indian and a negro colloquially or humorously a negro a sambo |
| dZamia: | A genus of cycadaceous plants having the appearance of low palms but with exogenous wood See Coontie and Illust of Strobile |
| Zamindar: | 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: | The jurisdiction of a zamindar the land possessed by a zamindar |
| Zamite: | A fossil cycad of the genus Zamia |
| Zamouse: | 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 shorthorned buffalo and bush cow |
| dZampogna: | A sort of bagpipe formerly in use among Italian peasants It is now almost obsolete |
| Zander: | A European pike perch Stizostedion lucioperca allied to the walleye called also sandari sander sannat schill and zant |
| Zandmole: | The sand mole |
| Zante: | See Zantewood |
| Zantecurrant: | A kind of seedless grape or raisin so called from Zante one of the Ionian Islands |
| Zantewood: | A yellow dyewood fustet called also zante and zante fustic See Fustet and the Note under Fustic |
| Zantiot: | A native or inhabitant of Zante one of the Ionian Islands |
| Zany: | A merryandrew a buffoon |
| Zany: | To mimic |
| Zanyism: | State or character of a zany buffoonery |
| zap: | to shoot destroy or inactivate my TV set was zapped by lightning |
| dZapas: | See Army organization above |
| Zapatera: | A cured olive which has spoiled or is on the verge of decomposition loosely an olive defective because of bruises wormholes or the like |
| Zaphara: | Zaffer |
| dZaphrentis: | An extinct genus of cyathophylloid corals common in the Paleozoic formations It is cupshaped with numerous septa and with a deep pit in one side of the cup |
| Zapotilla: | See Sapodilla |
| Zaptiah: | A Turkish policeman |
| Zarathustrian: | Of or pertaining to Zarathustra or Zoroaster Zoroastrian |
| Zarathustrism: | See Zoroastrianism |
| Zaratite: | A hydrous carbonate of nickel occurring as an emeraldgreen incrustation on chromite called also emerald nickel |
| dZareba: | An improvised stockade especially one made of thorn bushes etc |
| Zarf: | A metallic cuplike stand used for holding a finjan |
| Zarnich: | Native sulphide of arsenic including sandarach or realgar and orpiment |
| dZrthe: | A European bream Abramis vimba |
| Zastrugi: | Grooves or furrows formed in snow by the action of the wind and running parallel with the direction of the wind This formation results from the erosion of transverse waves previously formed |
| dZati: | 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 |
| dZauschneria: | A genus of flowering plants Zauschneria Californica is a suffrutescent perennial with showy red flowers much resembling those of the garden fuchsia |
| Zax: | A tool for trimming and puncturing roofing slates |
| dZayat: | A public shed or portico for travelers worshipers etc |
| dZea: | 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: | To be zealous |
| Zealant: | One who is zealous a zealot an enthusiast |
| Zealed: | Full of zeal characterized by zeal |
| Zealful: | Full of zeal |
| Zealless: | Wanting zeal |
| Zealot: | 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: | Like or suitable to a zealot ardently zealous |
| Zealotism: | The character or conduct of a zealot zealotry |
| Zealotist: | A zealot |
| Zealotry: | The character and behavior of a zealot excess of zeal fanatical devotion to a cause |
| Zebec: | See Xebec |
| Zebra: | Any member of three species of African wild horses remarkable for having the body white or yellowish white and conspicuously marked with dark brown or brackish bands |
| Zebrawood: | A kind of cabinet wood having beautiful black brown and whitish stripes the timber of a tropical American tree Connarus Guianensis |
| Zebrine: | Pertaining to or resembling the zebra |
| Zebrinny: | A cross between a male horse and a female zebra |
| Zebrula: | A cross between a male zebra and a female horse |
| Zebu: | 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: | A large noxious fly of Abyssinia which like the tsetse fly is destructive to cattle |
| Zechin: | See Sequin |
| dZechstein: | The upper division of the Permian Dyas of Europe The prevailing rock is a magnesian limestone |
| Zed: | The letter Z called also zee and formerly izzard |
| Zedoary: | 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 |
| dZeekoe: | A hippopotamus |
| Zeemaneffect: | The widening and duplication triplication etc of spectral lines when the radiations emanate in a strong magnetic field first observed in 1896 by P Zeeman a Dutch physicist and regarded as an important confirmation of the electromagnetic theory of light |
| dZehner: | An Austrian silver coin equal to ten kreutzers or about five cents |
| Zein: | A nitrogenous substance of the nature of gluten obtained from the seeds of Indian corn Zea as a soft yellowish amorphous substance |
| dZeitgeist: | The spirit of the time the general intellectual and moral state or temper characteristic of any period of time |
| Zemindar: | Same as Zamindar |
| Zemindary: | Same as Zamindary |
| Zemni: | 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 |
| Zemstvo: | In Russia an elective local district and provincial administrative assembly Originally it was composed of representatives elected by the peasantry the householders of the towns and the landed proprietors In the reign of Alexander III the power of the noble landowners was increased the peasants allowed only to elect candidates from whom the governor of the province nominated the deputy and all acts of the zemstvo subjected to the approval of the governor Theoretically the zemstvo has large powers relating to taxation education public health etc but practically these powers are in most cases limited to the adjustment of the state taxation |
| dZenana: | The part of a dwelling appropriated to women |
| Zend: | Properly the translation and exposition in the Huzvacirresh 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 |
| dZendAvesta: | The sacred writings of the ancient Persian religion attributed to Zoroaster but chiefly of a later date |
| dZendik: | An atheist or unbeliever name given in the East to those charged with disbelief of any revealed religion or accused of magical heresies |
| Zenick: | 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: | See Zenick |
| Zenithal: | Of or pertaining to the zenith |
| Zeolite: | 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: | Of or pertaining to a zeolite consisting of or resembling a zeolite |
| Zeolitiform: | Having the form of a zeolite |
| Zephyr: | The west wind poetically any soft gentle breeze |
| dZephyrus: | The west wind or zephyr usually personified and made the most mild and gentle of all the sylvan deities |
| Zeppelin: | A dirigible balloon of the rigid type consisting of a cylindrical trussed and covered frame supported by internal gas cells and provided with means of propulsion and control It was first successfully used by Ferdinand Count von Zeppelin |
| Zequin: | See Sequin |
| dZerda: | The fennec |
| dZeriba: | Same as Zareba |
| dZeta: | A Greek letter z |
| Zetetic: | Seeking proceeding by inquiry |
| Zetetic: | A seeker a name adopted by some of the Pyrrhonists |
| Zetetics: | A branch of algebra which relates to the direct search for unknown quantities |
| Zeuglodon: | 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: | Any species of Zeuglodonta |
| dZeuglodonta: | Same as Phocodontia |
| Zeugma: | 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 bdhic illius arma hic currus fuitb8 where fuit which agrees directly with currus is referred also to arma |
| Zeugmatic: | Of or pertaining to zeugma characterized by zeugma |
| dZeugobranchiata: | Same as Zygobranchia |
| Zeus: | The chief deity of the Greeks and ruler of the upper world cf Hades He was identified with Jupiter |
| Zeuzerian: | 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: | See Ceylanite |
| Zibet: | 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: | Curd produced from milk by adding acetic acid after rennet has ceased to cause coagulation |
| Zietrisikite: | A mineral wax vert similar to ozocerite It is found at Zietrisika Moldavia whence its name |
| dZif: | The second month of the Jewish ecclesiastical year corresponding to our May |
| Zigger: | Same as Sicker |
| Ziggurat: | A temple tower of the Babylonians or Assyrians consisting of a lofty pyramidal structure built in successive stages with outside staircases and a shrine at the top called also zikkurat |
| Zigzag: | Having short sharp turns running this way and that in an onward course |
| Zigzag: | To form with short turns |
| Zigzag: | To move in a zigzag manner also to have a zigzag shape |
| Zigzaggery: | The quality or state of being zigzag crookedness |
| Zigzaggy: | Having sharp turns |
| Zikkurat: | A temple tower of the Babylonians or Assyrians consisting of a lofty pyramidal structure built in successive stages with outside staircases and a shrine at the top called also ziggurat |
| Zilla: | 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 |
| dZillah: | A district or local division as of a province |
| dZimb: | A large venomous twowinged fly native of Abyssinia It is allied to the tsetse fly and like the latter is destructive to cattle |
| Zimentwater: | A kind of water found in copper mines water impregnated with copper |
| Zimocca: | A sponge Euspongia zimocca of flat form and fine quality from the Adriatic about the Greek islands and the coast of Barbary |
| Zinc: | An abundant element of the magnesiumcadmium 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 number 30 Atomic weight 6538 |
| Zinc: | To coat with zinc to galvanize |
| Zincane: | Zinc chloride |
| Zincic: | Pertaining to containing or resembling zinc zincous |
| Zincide: | A binary compound of zinc |
| Zinciferous: | Containing or affording zinc |
| Zincification: | The act or process of applying zinc the condition of being zincified or covered with zinc galvanization |
| Zincify: | To coat or impregnate with zinc |
| Zincite: | Native zinc oxide a brittle translucent mineral of an orangered color called also red zinc ore and red oxide of zinc |
| Zincking: | The act or process of applying zinc galvanization |
| Zincky: | Pertaining to zinc or having its appearance |
| Zinco: | A combining form from zinc in chemistry designating zinc as an element of certain double compounds Also used adjectively |
| Zincode: | The positive electrode of an electrolytic cell anode |
| Zincograph: | A zinc plate prepared for printing by zincography also a print from such a plate |
| Zincographer: | An engraver on zinc |
| Zincongraphic: | Of or pertaining to zincography as zincographic processes |
| Zincography: | 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: | 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 |
| Zincopolar: | Electrically polarized like the surface of the zinc presented to the acid in a battery which has zincous affinity |
| Zincous: | Of pertaining to or containing zinc zincic as zincous salts |
| zine: | A publication similar to a magazine4 but in electronic rather than printed form maintained as data files on a computer and accessible via the world wide web |
| dZingaro: | A gypsy |
| Zingel: | A small edible freshwater European perch Aspro zingel having a round elongated body and prominent snout |
| Zingiberaceous: | Of or pertaining to ginger or to a tribe Zingibere of endogenous plants of the order Scitamine See Scitamineous |
| Zink: | See Zinc |
| Zinkenite: | A steelgray metallic mineral a sulphide of antimony and lead |
| Zinky: | See Zincky |
| dZinnia: | Any plant of the composite genus Zinnia Mexican herbs with opposite leaves and large gaycolored blossoms Zinnia elegans is the commonest species in cultivation |
| Zinnwaldite: | A kind of mica containing lithium often associated with tin ore |
| Zinsang: | The delundung |
| Zinziberaceous: | Same as Zingiberaceous |
| Zionism: | Among the Jews a theory plan or movement for colonizing their own race in Palestine the land of Zion or if that is impracticable elsewhere either for religious or nationalizing purposes called also Zion movement |
| Zip: | A hissing or sibilant sound such as that made by a flying bullet |
| Zip: | To make or move with such a sound |
| zip: | a full ninedigit zip code See zip code |
| zipcode: | any one of a set of numbers assigned by the United States Postal Service to designate a particular postal delivery area One or more zip codes are assigned to each post office The numbers initially had five digits the initial code indicating state and post office Later four more optional digits were added the expanded code indicating the box number or delivery route The full set of nine digits is also referred to as zip 4 The code is appended in an address to the line bearing the city and state names as in bdPlainfield NJ 07062b8 |
| zipcode: | to affix a zip code to an address or a letter |
| Ziphioid: | See Xiphioid |
| Zirco: | A combining form also used adjectively designating zirconium as an element of certain double compounds zircono as in zircofluoric acid sodium zircofluoride |
| Zircofluoride: | A double fluoride of zirconium and hydrogen or some other positive element or radical as zircofluoride of sodium |
| Zircon: | A mineral consisting predominantly of zirconium silicate Zr2SiO4 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 paleyellow or smokybrown varieties from Ceylon are called jargon |
| Zircona: | Zirconia |
| Zirconate: | A salt of zirconic acid |
| Zirconia: | The oxide of zirconium ZrO2 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: | Pertaining to containing or resembling zirconium as zirconic oxide zirconic compounds |
| Zirconium: | A rare element of the carbonsilicon 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 904 |
| Zirconlight: | A light similar to the calcium light produced by incandescent zirconia |
| Zircono: | See Zirco |
| Zirconoid: | A double eightsided pyramid a form common with tetragonal crystals so called because this form often occurs in crystals of zircon |
| zit: | a pimple |
| Zither: | An instrument of music used in Austria and Germany It has from thirty to forty wires strung across a shallow soundingboard which lies horizontally on a table before the performer who uses both hands in playing on it Not to be confounded with the old luteshaped cittern or cithern |
| Zittern: | See Cittern |
| dZizania: | A genus of grasses including Indian rice See Indian rice under Rice |
| Zizel: | The suslik |
| dZizith: | The tassels of twisted cords or threads on the corners of the upper garment worn by strict Jews The Hebrew for this word is translated in both the Authorized and Revised Versions Deut xxii 12 by the word bdfringesb8 |
| dZoanthacea: | A suborder of Actinaria including Zoanthus and allied genera which are permanently attached by their bases |
| dZoantharia: | Same as Anthozoa |
| Zoantharian: | Of or pertaining to the Zoantharia |
| Zoanthodeme: | The zooids of a compound anthozoan collectively |
| Zoanthoid: | Of or pertaining to the Zoanthacea |
| Zoanthropy: | A kind of monomania in which the patient believes himself transformed into one of the lower animals |
| dZoanthus: | 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 |
| dZobo: | 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 |
| Zocco: | Same as Socle |
| Zocle: | Same as Socle |
| Zocor: | a trade name for simvastatin |
| Zodiacal: | Of or pertaining to the zodiac situated within the zodiac as the zodiacal planets |
| dZoa: | A peculiar larval stage of certain decapod Crustacea especially of crabs and certain Anomura |
| Zoetrope: | 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 |
| dZohar: | 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: | Of or pertaining to animals or animal life |
| Zoide: | See Meride |
| Zoilean: | Having the characteristic of Zoilus a bitter envious unjust critic who lived about 270 years before Christ |
| Zoilism: | Resemblance to Zoilus in style or manner carping criticism detraction |
| Zoisite: | 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 |
| Zoism: | Reverence for animal life or belief in animal powers and influences as among savages |
| dZokor: | An Asiatic burrowing rodent Siphneus aspalax resembling the mole rat It is native of the Altai Mountains |
| Zolaesque: | In the style of Zola see Zolaism |
| Zolaism: | The literary theories and practices of the French novelist Emile Zola 18401902 naturalism esp in a derogatory sense |
| Zllnerslines: | Parallel lines that are made to appear convergent or divergent by means of oblique intersections |
| dZollverein: | 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: | See Zumbooruk |
| dZona: | A zone or band a layer |
| Zonal: | Of or pertaining to a zone having the form of a zone or zones |
| Zonar: | A belt or girdle which the Christians and Jews of the Levant were obliged to wear to distinguish them from Mohammedans |
| dZonaria: | A division of Mammalia in which the placenta is zonelike |
| Zonate: | Divided by parallel planes as zonate tetraspores found in certain red alg |
| Zone: | A girdle a cincture |
| Zone: | To girdle to encircle |
| Zoned: | Wearing a zone or girdle |
| Zoneless: | Not having a zone ungirded |
| Zonnar: | See Zonar |
| Zonular: | Of or pertaining to a zone zoneshaped |
| Zonule: | A little zone or girdle |
| Zonulet: | A zonule |
| Zonure: | Any one of several of South African lizards of the genus Zonura common in rocky situations |
| Zo: | A combining form from Gr zwon an animal as in zo94genic zo94logy etc |
| Zochemical: | Pertaining to zo94chemistry |
| Zochemistry: | Animal chemistry particularly the description of the chemical compounds entering into the composition of the animal body in distinction from biochemistry |
| Zochemy: | Animal chemistry zo94chemistry |
| dZochlorella: | One of the small green granulelike bodies found in the interior of certain stentors hydras and other invertebrates |
| Zocyst: | 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 |
| dZocytium: | The common support often branched of certain species of social Infusoria |
| dZodendrium: | The branched and often treelike support of the colonies of certain Infusoria |
| dZodcium: | One of the cells or tubes which inclose the feeling zooids of Bryozoa See Illust of Sea Moss |
| Zoerythrine: | A peculiar organic red coloring matter found in the feathers of various birds |
| Zogamous: | Of or pertaining zo94gamy |
| Zogamy: | The sexual reproduction of animals |
| Zogenic: | Of or pertaining to zo94geny animal production |
| Zogeny: | The doctrine of the formation of living beings |
| Zogeographical: | Of or pertaining to zo94graphy |
| Zogeography: | The study or description of the geographical distribution of animals |
| dZoglda: | A colony or mass of bacteria imbedded in a viscous gelatinous substance The zo94gld2a is characteristic of a transitory stage through which rapidly multiplying bacteria pass in the course of their evolution Also used adjectively |
| Zographer: | One who describes animals their forms and habits |
| Zographic: | Of or pertaining to the description of animals |
| Zographist: | A zo94grapher |
| Zography: | A description of animals their forms and habits |
| Zooid: | Pertaining to or resembling an animal |
| Zooid: | An organic body or cell having locomotion as a spermatic cell or spermatozooid |
| Zooidal: | Of or pertaining to a zooid as a zooidal form |
| Zolatry: | The worship of animals |
| Zologer: | A zo94logist |
| Zological: | Of or pertaining to zo94logy or the science of animals |
| Zologically: | In a zo94logical manner according to the principles of zo94logy |
| Zologist: | One who is well versed in zo94logy |
| Zologize: | To study zo94logy esp to collect animals for study |
| Zomelanin: | A pigment giving the black color to the feathers of many birds |
| Zomorphic: | Of or pertaining to zo94morphism |
| Zomorphism: | The transformation of men into beasts |
| dZon: | An animal which is the sole product of a single egg opposed to zooid |
| Zonic: | Of or pertaining to animals obtained from animal substances |
| Zonite: | One of the segments of the body of an articulate animal |
| Zonomy: | The laws of animal life or the science which treats of the phenomena of animal life their causes and relations |
| Zonule: | Same as Zo94nite |
| Zopathology: | Animal pathology |
| dZophaga: | An artificial group comprising various carnivorous and insectivorous animals |
| Zophagan: | A animal that feeds on animal food |
| Zophagous: | Feeding on animals |
| Zophilist: | A lover of animals |
| Zophily: | Love of animals |
| Zophite: | A zo94phyte |
| Zophoric: | Bearing or supporting the figure of an animal as a zo94phoric column |
| dZophorous: | The part between the architrave and cornice the frieze so called from the figures of animals carved upon it |
| dZophyta: | An extensive artificial and heterogeneous group of animals formerly adopted by many zo94logists It included the coelenterates echinoderms sponges Bryozoa Protozoa etc |
| Zophyte: | 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 |
| Zophytic: | Of or pertaining to zo94phytes |
| Zophytoid: | Pertaining to or resembling a zo94phyte |
| Zophytological: | Of or pertaining to zo94phytology as zo94phytological observations |
| Zophytology: | The natural history zo94phytes |
| Zopraxiscope: | 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 |
| Zopsychology: | Animal psychology |
| Zosperm: | One of the spermatic particles spermatozoid |
| dZosporangium: | A spore or conceptacle containing zo94spores |
| Zosporic: | Of or pertaining to zo94spores of the nature of zo94spores |
| Zotic: | Containing the remains of organized bodies said of rock or soil |
| Zotomical: | Of or pertaining to zo94tomy |
| Zotomist: | One who dissects animals or is skilled in zo94tomy |
| Zotomy: | The dissection or the anatomy of animals distinguished from androtomy |
| Zotrophic: | Of or pertaining to the nourishment of animals |
| Zoozoo: | The wood pigeon |
| Zope: | A European freshwater bream Abramis ballerus |
| Zopilote: | The urubu or American black vulture |
| Zoril: | Same as Zorilla |
| Zorilla: | Either one of two species of small African carnivores of the genus Ictonyx allied to the weasels and skunks |
| Zoroastrian: | Of or pertaining to Zoroaster or his religious system |
| Zoroastrian: | A follower of Zoroaster one who accepts Zoroastrianism |
| Zoroastrianism: | 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: | Same as Zoroastrianism |
| dZoster: | Shingles |
| dZostera: | A genus of plants of the Naiadace or Pondweed family Zostera marina is commonly known as sea wrack and eelgrass |
| dZosterops: | A genus of birds that comprises the whiteeyes See Whiteeye |
| Zouave: | 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: | An exclamation formerly used as an oath and an expression of anger or wonder |
| Zoutch: | To stew as flounders eels etc with just enough or liquid to cover them |
| Zubr: | The aurochs |
| Zuche: | A stump of a tree |
| Zuchetto: | A skullcap covering the tonsure worn under the berretta The popes is white a cardinals red a bishops purple a priests black |
| dZufolo: | A little flute or flageolet especially that which is used to teach birds |
| Zuisin: | The American widgeon |
| Zulu: | Any member of the tribe of Zulus a ZuluKaffir See Zulus |
| ZuluKaffir: | A member of the Bantu race comprising the Zulus and the Kaffirs |
| Zulus: | 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: | A small cannon supported by a swiveled rest on the back of a camel whence it is fired used in the East |
| Zumic: | See Zymic Zymological etc |
| Zuaian: | Of or pertaining to the Zua4is or designating their linguistic stock |
| Zuntilis: | A tribe of Pueblo Indians occupying a village in New Mexico on the Zu River |
| Zunyite: | A fluosilicate of alumina occurring in tetrahedral crystals at the Zu mine in Colorado |
| dZwanziger: | An Austrian silver coin equivalent to 20 kreutzers or about 10 cents |
| dZwieback: | A kind of biscuit or rusk first baked in a loaf and afterwards cut and toasted |
| Zwinglian: | Of or pertaining to Ulric Zwingli 14811531 the reformer of German Switzerland who maintained that in the Lords Supper the true body of Christ is present by the contemplation of faith but not in essence or reality and that the sacrament is a memorial without mystical elements |
| dZygantrum: | See under Zygosphene |
| Zygapophysis: | One of the articular processes of a vertebra of which there are usually four two anterior and two posterior See under Vertebra |
| Zygenid: | Any one of numerous species of moths of the family Zygnid most of which are bright colored The wood nymph and the vine forester are examples Also used adjectively |
| dZygobranchia: | 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: | Of or pertaining to the Zygobranchia |
| Zygodactyl: | Any zygodactylous bird |
| dZygodactyl: | The zygodactylous birds In a restricted sense applied to a division of birds which includes the barbets toucans honey guides and other related birds |
| dZygodactyli: | Same as Scansores |
| Zygodactylic: | Yokefooted having the toes disposed in pairs applied to birds which have two toes before and two behind as the parrot cuckoo woodpecker etc |
| dZygoma: | The jugal malar or cheek bone |
| Zygomatic: | Of pertaining to or in the region of the zygoma |
| Zygomorphic: | Symmetrical bilaterally said of organisms or parts of organisms capable of division into two symmetrical halves only in a single plane |
| Zygophyte: | Any plant of a proposed class or grand division Zygophytes Zygophyta or Zygospore in which reproduction consists in the union of two similar cells Cf O94phyte |
| dZygosis: | The process of the merging of two gametes Same as Conjugation |
| Zygosperm: | 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 alg and fungi |
| Zygosphene: | A median process on the front part of the neural arch of the vertebr of most snakes and some lizards which fits into a fossa called the zygantrum on the back part of the arch in front |
| Zygospore: | Same as Zygosperm |
| Zylonite: | Celluloid |
| Zymase: | A soluble ferment or enzyme See Enzyme |
| Zymic: | Pertaining to or produced by fermentation formerly by confusion used to designate lactic acid |
| Zymogen: | 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: | One of a physiological group of globular bacteria which produces fermentations of diverse nature distinguished from pathogene |
| Zymogenic: | Pertaining to or formed by a zymogene |
| Zymologic: | Of or pertaining to zymology |
| Zymologist: | One who is skilled in zymology or in the fermentation of liquors |
| Zymology: | A treatise on the fermentation of liquors or the doctrine of fermentation |
| dZymolysis: | The action of enzymes such as digestion or fermentation also the changes produced by such action |
| Zymome: | A glutinous substance insoluble in alcohol resembling legumin now called vegetable fibrin vegetable albumin or gluten casein |
| Zymometer: | 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: | A bacteroid ferment |
| Zymoscope: | An apparatus for determining the fermenting power of yeast by measuring the amount of carbonic acid evolved from a given quantity of sugar |
| Zymose: | Invertin |
| dZymosis: | A fermentation hence an analogous process by which an infectious disease is believed to be developed |
| Zythem: | See Zythum |
| Zythepsary: | A brewery |
| dZythum: | A kind of ancient malt beverage a liquor made from malt and wheat |
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