Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter Z - Page 3
Zittern (n.) (Min.) See Cittern.
Zizania (n.) (Bot.) A genus of grasses including Indian rice. See Indian rice, under Rice.
Zizania (n.) Wild rice [syn: Zizania, genus Zizania].
Zizel (n.) (Zool.) The suslik. [Written also zisel.]
Zoanthacea (n. pl.) (Zool.) A suborder of Actinaria, including Zoanthus and allied genera, which are permanently attached by their bases.
Zoantharia (n. pl.) [NL.] (Zool.) Same as Anthozoa.
Zoantharian (a.) (Zool.) Of or pertaining to the Zoantharia.
Zoantharian (n.) One of the Anthozoa.
Zoanthodeme (n.) (Zool.) The zooids of a compound anthozoan, collectively.
Zoanthoid (a.) (Zool.) Of or pertaining to the Zoanthacea.
Zoanthropy (n.) (Med.) A kind of monomania in which the patient believes himself transformed into one of the lower animals.
Zoanthropy (n.) The delusion that you have assumed the form of an animal.
Zoanthus (n.) (Zool.) 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 (n.) (Zool.) 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 (n.) (Arch.) Same as Socle.
Zocco (n.) (Arch.) Alt. of Zoccolo
Zoccolo (n.) (Arch.) Same as Socle.
Zodiac (n.) (Astron.) 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.
Zodiac (n.) (Astron.) A figure representing the signs, symbols, and constellations of the zodiac.
Zodiac (n.) A girdle; a belt. [Poetic & R.]
By his side, As in a glistering zodiac, hung the sword. -- Milton.
Zodiac (n.) A belt-shaped region in the heavens on either side to the ecliptic; divided into 12 constellations or signs for astrological purposes.
Zodiac (n.) (Astrology) A circular diagram representing the 12 zodiacal constellations and showing their signs.
Zodiacal (a.) (Astron.) Of or pertaining to the zodiac; situated within the zodiac; as, the zodiacal planets.
Zodiacal light, A luminous tract of the sky, of an elongated, triangular figure, lying near the ecliptic, its base being on the horizon, and its apex at varying altitudes. It is to be seen only in the evening, after twilight, and in the morning before dawn. It is supposed to be due to sunlight reflected from multitudes of meteoroids revolving about the sun nearly in the plane of the ecliptic.
Zodiacal (a.) Relating to or included in the zodiac; "zodiacal constellations".
Zoea (n.) (Zool.) A peculiar larval stage of certain decapod Crustacea, especially of crabs and certain Anomura. [Written also zoaea.]
Note: In this stage the anterior part of the body is relatively large, and usually bears three or four long spines. The years are conspicuous, and the antennae and jaws are long, fringed organs used in swimming. The thoracic legs are undeveloped or rudimentary, the abdomen long, slender, and often without appendages. The zoea, after casting its shell, changes to a megalops.
Zoetrope (n.) 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 (n.) 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. -- Encyc. Brit.
Zohar brightness. The father of Ephron the Hittite (Gen. 23:8).
Zohar brightness. One of the sons of Simeon (Gen. 46:10; Ex. 6:15).
Zohar, White; bright; dryness
Zoic (a.) (Zool.) Of or pertaining to animals, or animal life.
Zoide (n.) (Biol.) See Meride.
Zoilean (a.) Having the characteristic of Zoilus, a bitter, envious, unjust critic, who lived about 270 years before Christ.
Zoilism (n.) Resemblance to Zoilus in style or manner; carping criticism; detraction.
Zoisite (n.) 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 (n.) An Asiatic burrowing rodent (Siphneus aspalax) resembling the mole rat. It is native of the Altai Mountains.
Zollverein (n.) 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 (n.) See Zumbooruk.
Zonae (n. pl. ) of Zona
Zona (n.) A zone or band; a layer.
Zonal (a.) Of or pertaining to a zone; having the form of a zone or zones.
Zonar (n.) A belt or girdle which the Christians and Jews of the Levant were obliged to wear to distinguish them from Mohammedans.
Zonaria (n. pl.) A division of Mammalia in which the placenta is zonelike.
Zonate (a.) Divided by parallel planes; as, zonate tetraspores, found in certain red algae.
Zone (n.) A girdle; a cincture.
Zone (n.) One of the five great divisions of the earth, with respect to latitude and temperature.
Zone (n.) The portion of the surface of a sphere included between two parallel planes; the portion of a surface of revolution included between two planes perpendicular to the axis.
Zone (n.) A band or stripe extending around a body.
Zone (n.) A band or area of growth encircling anything; as, a zone of evergreens on a mountain; the zone of animal or vegetable life in the ocean around an island or a continent; the Alpine zone, that part of mountains which is above the limit of tree growth.
Zone (n.) A series of planes having mutually parallel intersections.
Zone (n.) Circuit; circumference.
Zone (v. t.) To girdle; to encircle.
Zone (n.) [ C ] (B1) （尤指有不同特徵或用途的）地帶，地區 An area, especially one that is different from the areas around it because it has different characteristics or is used for different purposes.
// An earthquake zone.
// A nuclear-free zone.
// He was charged with driving at 75 mph in a 55 mph zone.
// This stretch of coast has been designated a danger zone.
// The UN Security Council has established a no-fly zone (= one where aircraft are not permitted to fly).
Zone (n.) [ C ] (Specialized) (Geography,) (Environment) （地球的）氣候帶 One of the five parts the earth is divided into according to temperature, marked by imaginary lines going around it from east to west.
// Temperate zones.
Idiom: In the zone
In the zone (Informal) （做某事）得心應手 If you are in the zone, you are happy or excited because you are doing something very skilfully and easily.
Zone (v.) [ T usually passive ] (Specialized) 將…劃作特殊區域；指定…為某項用途的區域 To give a special purpose to a particular area, such as an area in a town.
// The former dockyard has been zoned for industrial use.
Zoned (a.) Wearing a zone, or girdle.
Zoned (a.) Having zones, or concentric bands; striped.
Zoned (a.) Zonate.
Zoneless (a.) Not having a zone; ungirded.
Zonnar (n.) See Zonar.
Zonular (a.) Of or pertaining to a zone; zone-shaped.
Zonule (n.) A little zone, or girdle.
Zonulet (n.) A zonule.
Zonure (n.) Any one of several of South African lizards of the genus Zonura, common in rocky situations.
Zoo- () A combining form from Gr. zwo^,n an animal, as in zoogenic, zoology, etc.
Zoochemical (a.) Pertaining to zoochemistry.
Zoochemistry (n.) Animal chemistry; particularly, the description of the chemical compounds entering into the composition of the animal body, in distinction from biochemistry.
Zoochemy (n.) Animal chemistry; zoochemistry.
Zoochlorella (n.) One of the small green granulelike bodies found in the interior of certain stentors, hydras, and other invertebrates.
Zoocyst (n.) 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 (n. pl. ) of Zoocytium
Zoocytium (n.) The common support, often branched, of certain species of social Infusoria.
Zoodendria (n. pl. ) of Zoodendrium
Zoodendrium (n.) The branched, and often treelike, support of the colonies of certain Infusoria.
Zooecia (n. pl. ) of Zooecium
Zooecium (n.) One of the cells or tubes which inclose the feeling zooids of Bryozoa. See Illust. of Sea Moss.
Zooerythrine (n.) A peculiar organic red coloring matter found in the feathers of various birds.
Zoogamous (a.) Of or pertaining zoogamy.
Zoogamy (n.) The sexual reproduction of animals.
Zoogenic (a.) Of or pertaining to zoogeny, animal production.
Zoogeny (n.) Alt. of Zoogony
Zoogony (n.) The doctrine of the formation of living beings.
Zoogeography (n.) 動物地理學 The study or description of the geographical distribution of animals.
Zoogeography (n.) The biological study of the geographic distribution of animals, especially the causes and effects of such distribution.
Zoogeography (n.) [Mass noun] The branch of zoology that deals with the geographical distribution of animals.
Zoogeographical (a.) (Not comparable) 動物地理學的 Of or pertaining to zoogeography.
Compare: Zoography
Zoography (n.) 動物誌；動物地理學 The biological description of animals and their habitats.
Zoogloea (n.) 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 (n.) One who describes animals, their forms and habits.
Zoographic (a.) Alt. of Zoographical
Zoographical (a.) Of or pertaining to the description of animals.
Zoographist (n.) A zoographer.
Zoography (n.) A description of animals, their forms and habits.
Zooid (a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, an animal.
Zooid (n.) An organic body or cell having locomotion, as a spermatic cell or spermatozooid.
Zooid (n.) An animal in one of its inferior stages of development, as one of the intermediate forms in alternate generation.
Zooid (n.) One of the individual animals in a composite group, as of Anthozoa, Hydroidea, and Bryozoa; -- sometimes restricted to those individuals in which the mouth and digestive organs are not developed.
Zooidal (a.) Of or pertaining to a zooid; as, a zooidal form.
Zoolatry (n.) The worship of animals.
Zoologer (n.) A zoologist.
Zoological (a.) Of or pertaining to zoology, or the science of animals.
Zoologically (adv.) In a zoological manner; according to the principles of zoology.
Zoologist (n.) One who is well versed in zoology.
Zoologies (n. pl. ) of Zoology
Zoology (n.) 動物學 [U] 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.
Zoology (n.) A treatise on this science.
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Zoology (n.) All the animal life in a particular region or period; "the fauna of China"; "the zoology of the Pliocene epoch" [syn: {fauna}, {zoology}] [ant: {botany}, {flora}, {vegetation}].
Zoology (n.) The branch of biology that studies animals [syn: {zoology}, {zoological science}].
Zoology (n.) The science and history of the animal kingdom, including its king, the House Fly (_Musca maledicta_). The father of Zoology was Aristotle, as is universally conceded, but the name of its mother has not come down to us. Two of the science's most illustrious expounders were Buffon and Oliver Goldsmith, from both of whom we learn (_L'Histoire generale des animaux_ and _A History of Animated Nature_) that the domestic cow sheds its horn every two years.
Zoology (n.) The science and history of the animal kingdom, including its king, the House Fly (_Musca maledicta_). The father of Zoology was Aristotle, as is universally conceded, but the name of its mother has not come down to us. Two of the science's most illustrious expounders were Buffon and Oliver Goldsmith, from both of whom we learn (_L'Histoire generale des animaux_ and _A History of Animated Nature_) that the domestic cow sheds its horn every two years.
Zoom (v.) (Informal) [ I + adv/ prep ] 快速移動 To move very quickly.
// They got into the car and zoomed off.
// In the last few metres of the race, she suddenly zoomed ahead.
Zoom (v.) [ I ] （價額或銷售額）猛漲 If prices or sales zoom, they increase suddenly and quickly.
// House prices suddenly zoomed up last year.
Zoomelanin (n.) A pigment giving the black color to the feathers of many birds.
Zoomorphic (a.) 獸形的 Of or pertaining to zoomorphism.
Zoomorphism (n.) 獸形神現；動物描繪或造型 The transformation of men into beasts. [R.] -- Smart.
Zoomorphism (n.) The quality of representing or using animal forms; as, zoomorphism in ornament.
Zoomorphism (n.) The representation of God, or of gods, in the form, or with the attributes, of the lower animals.
To avoid the error of anthropomorphism, we fall into the vastly greater, and more absurd, error of zoomorphism. -- Mivart.
Zoomorphism (n.) The attribution of animal forms or qualities to a god.
Zoa (n. pl. ) of Zoon
Zoon (n.) （群體動物中）發育完全的個體；動物 An animal which is the sole product of a single egg; -- opposed to {zooid}. -- H. Spencer.
Zoon (n.) Any one of the perfectly developed individuals of a compound animal.