zoophyte | (noun) any of various invertebrate animals resembling a plant such as a sea anemone or coral or sponge | - |
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zooplankton | (noun) animal constituent of plankton; mainly small crustaceans and fish larvae | - |
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zoopsia | (noun) visual hallucination of animals; sometimes occurring in delirium tremens | - |
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zoospore | (noun) an asexual spore of some algae and fungi that moves by means of flagella | - |
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zootoxin | (noun) a toxin resembling bacterial toxins in its antigenic properties that is found in the fluids of certain animals | Synonyms: animal toxin |
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zori | (noun) a sandal attached to the foot by a thong over the toes | Synonyms: pusher |
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zoril | (noun) muishond of northern Africa | Synonyms: Ictonyx frenata |
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zoster | (noun) eruptions along a nerve path often accompanied by severe neuralgia | Synonyms: herpes zoster, shingles |
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zoysia | (noun) any of several creeping grasses of the genus Zoysia | - |
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zucchini | (noun) small cucumber-shaped vegetable marrow; typically dark green | Synonyms: courgette |
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(noun) marrow squash plant whose fruit are eaten when small | Synonyms: courgette |
zumbooruck | (noun) a camel cavalry used in the early modern era by Arab, Afghan, Persian, and Indian armies | Synonyms: camel cavalry, zamboorak, zamburak, zamburek, zumbooruk |
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zumbooruk | (noun) a camel cavalry used in the early modern era by Arab, Afghan, Persian, and Indian armies | Synonyms: camel cavalry, zamboorak, zamburak, zamburek, zumbooruck |
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zwieback | (noun) slice of sweet raised bread baked again until it is brown and hard and crisp | Synonyms: Brussels biscuit, rusk, twice-baked bread |
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zydeco | (noun) music of southern Louisiana that combines French dance melodies with Caribbean music and blues | - |
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zygoma | (noun) the slender arch formed by the temporal process of the cheekbone that bridges to the zygomatic process of the temporal bone | Synonyms: arcus zygomaticus, zygomatic arch |
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zygomatic | (noun) the arch of bone beneath the eye that forms the prominence of the cheek | Synonyms: cheekbone, jugal bone, malar, malar bone, os zygomaticum, zygomatic bone |
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zygospore | (noun) a plant spore formed by two similar sexual cells | - |
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zygote | (noun) (genetics) the diploid cell resulting from the union of a haploid spermatozoon and ovum (including the organism that develops from that cell) | Synonyms: fertilized ovum |
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zygotene | (noun) the second stage of the prophase of meiosis | - |
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zymase | (noun) a complex of enzymes that cause glycolysis; originally found in yeast but also present in higher organisms | - |
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zymogen | (noun) any of a group of compounds that are inactive precursors of enzymes and require some change (such as the hydrolysis of a fragment that masks an active enzyme) to become active | Synonyms: proenzyme |
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zymology | (noun) the branch of chemistry concerned with fermentation (as in making wine or brewing or distilling) | Synonyms: zymurgy |
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zymolysis | (noun) a process in which an agent causes an organic substance to break down into simpler substances; especially, the anaerobic breakdown of sugar into alcohol | Synonyms: ferment, fermentation, fermenting, zymosis |
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zymosis | (noun) (medicine) the development and spread of an infectious disease (especially one caused by a fungus) | - |
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(noun) a process in which an agent causes an organic substance to break down into simpler substances; especially, the anaerobic breakdown of sugar into alcohol | Synonyms: ferment, fermentation, fermenting, zymolysis |
zymurgy | (noun) the branch of chemistry concerned with fermentation (as in making wine or brewing or distilling) | Synonyms: zymology |
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