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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.
Zacco
See .
Zachun
An oil pressed by the Arabs from the fruit of a small thorny tree (), and sold to piligrims for a healing ointment.
Zaimet
A district from which a Zaim draws his revenue.
Zalambdodont
One of the . The tenrec, solenodon, and golden moles are examples.
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.
Zamia
A genus of cycadaceous plants, having the appearance of low palms, but with exogenous wood. See , and of .
Zandmole
The sand mole.
Zantewood
A yellow dyewood; fustet; -- called also , and . See , and the Note under .
Zany
To mimic.
zap
to shoot, destroy, or inactivate; .
Zapas
See , above.
Zaptiah
A Turkish policeman.
Zaratite
A hydrous carbonate of nickel occurring as an emerald-green incrustation on chromite; -- called also .
Zareba
An improvised stockade; especially, one made of thorn bushes, etc.
Zrthe
A European bream ().
Zax
A tool for trimming and puncturing roofing slates.
Zayat
A public shed, or portico, for travelers, worshipers, etc.
Zealed
Full of zeal; characterized by zeal.
Zealotical
Like, or suitable to, a zealot; ardently zealous.
Zealotry
The character and behavior of a zealot; excess of zeal; fanatical devotion to a cause.
Zebrine
Pertaining to, or resembling, the zebra.
Zebub
A large noxious fly of Abyssinia, which like the tsetse fly, is destructive to cattle.
Zechstein
The upper division of the Permian (Dyas) of Europe. The prevailing rock is a magnesian limestone.
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.
Zeekoe
A hippopotamus.
Zeeman effect
The widening and duplication, triplication, etc., of spectral lines when the radiations emanate in a strong magnetic field, first observed in 1896 by , a Dutch physicist, and regarded as an important confirmation of the electromagnetic theory of light.
Zeitgeist
The spirit of the time; the general intellectual and moral state or temper characteristic of any period of time.
Zenik
See .
Zequin
See .
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 .
Zeuglodont
Any species of Zeuglodonta.
Zeugmatic
Of or pertaining to zeugma; characterized by zeugma.
Zeugobranchiata
Same as .
Zietrisikite
A mineral wax, vert similar to ozocerite. It is found at , Moldavia, whence its name.
Zigzag
To move in a zigzag manner; also, to have a zigzag shape.
Zigzaggery
The quality or state of being zigzag; crookedness.
Zillah
A district or local division, as of a province.
Ziment-water
A kind of water found in copper mines; water impregnated with copper.
Zimocca
A sponge () of flat form and fine quality, from the Adriatic, about the Greek islands, and the coast of Barbary.
Zincic
Pertaining to, containing, or resembling, zinc; zincous.
Zinciferous
Containing or affording zinc.
Zinco-
A combining form from ; in chemistry, designating as an element of certain double compounds. Also used adjectively.
Zingiberaceous
Of or pertaining to ginger, or to a tribe () of endogenous plants of the order . See .
Zinnwaldite
A kind of mica containing lithium, often associated with tin ore.
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 .
Zip
A hissing or sibilant sound such as that made by a flying bullet.
zip + 4
a full nine-digit . See .
Ziphioid
See .
Zirconium
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.
zit
a .
Zither
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.
Zoanthodeme
The zooids of a compound anthozoan, collectively.
Zoanthropy
A kind of monomania in which the patient believes himself transformed into one of the lower animals.
Zocor
a trade name for .
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.
Zokor
An Asiatic burrowing rodent () resembling the mole rat. It is native of the Altai Mountains.
Zolaesque
In the style of (see ).
Zllner's lines
Parallel lines that are made to appear convergent or divergent by means of oblique intersections.
Zomboruk
See .
Zonate
Divided by parallel planes; .
Zone
To girdle; to encircle.
Zochemical
Pertaining to zochemistry.
Zochemy
Animal chemistry; zochemistry.
Zoerythrine
A peculiar organic red coloring matter found in the feathers of various birds.
Zogamous
Of or pertaining zogamy.
Zogamy
The sexual reproduction of animals.
Zogeographical
Of or pertaining to zography.
Zographer
One who describes animals, their forms and habits.
Zooid
An organic body or cell having locomotion, as a spermatic cell or spermatozooid.
Zologist
One who is well versed in zology.
Zologize
To study zology; esp., to collect animals for study.
Zonule
Same as .
Zophaga
An artificial group comprising various carnivorous and insectivorous animals.
Zophorous
The part between the architrave and cornice; the frieze; -- so called from the figures of animals carved upon it.
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.
Zophytoid
Pertaining to, or resembling, a zophyte.
Zosporic
Of or pertaining to zospores; of the nature of zospores.
Zotic
Containing the remains of organized bodies; -- said of rock or soil.
Zoozoo
The wood pigeon.
Zorilla
Either one of two species of small African carnivores of the genus allied to the weasels and skunks.
Zoroastrian
Of or pertaining to , or his religious system.
Zosterops
A genus of birds that comprises the white-eyes. See .
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.
Zoutch
To stew, as flounders, eels, etc., with just enough or liquid to cover them.
Zulu-Kaffir
A member of the Bantu race comprising the Zulus and the Kaffirs.
Zuntilde;is
A tribe of Pueblo Indians occupying a village in New Mexico, on the River.
Zunyite
A fluosilicate of alumina occurring in tetrahedral crystals at the mine in Colorado.
Zwanziger
An Austrian silver coin equivalent to 20 kreutzers, or about 10 cents.
Zygenid
Any one of numerous species of moths of the family , most of which are bright colored. The wood nymph and the vine forester are examples. Also used adjectively.
Zygobranchiate
Of or pertaining to the Zygobranchia.
Zygodactyl
The zygodactylous birds. In a restricted sense applied to a division of birds which includes the barbets, toucans, honey guides, and other related birds.
Zygomatic
Of, pertaining to, or in the region of, the zygoma.
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 , on the back part of the arch in front.
Zymolysis
The action of enzymes, such as digestion or fermentation; also, the changes produced by such action.
Zymose
Invertin.
Zymosis
A fermentation; hence, an analogous process by which an infectious disease is believed to be developed.
Zythem
See .