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.

Reverence for animal life or belief in animal powers and influences, as among savages.

An Asiatic burrowing rodent (Siphneus aspalax) resembling the mole rat. It is native of the Altai Mountains.

In the style of Zola (see Zolaism).

The literary theories and practices of the French novelist Emile Zola (1840-1902); naturalism, esp. in a derogatory sense.

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.

See Zumbooruk.

A zone or band; a layer.

Of or pertaining to a zone; having the form of a zone or zones.

A belt or girdle which the Christians and Jews of the Levant were obliged to wear to distinguish them from Mohammedans.

A division of Mammalia in which the placenta is zonelike.

Divided by parallel planes; as, zonate tetraspores, found in certain red algae.

To girdle; to encircle.

Wearing a zone, or girdle.

Not having a zone; ungirded.

See Zonar.

Of or pertaining to a zone; zone-shaped.

A little zone, or girdle.

A zonule.

Any one of several of South African lizards of the genus Zonura, common in rocky situations.

Pertaining to zoochemistry.

Animal chemistry; particularly, the description of the chemical compounds entering into the composition of the animal body, in distinction from biochemistry.

Animal chemistry; zoochemistry.

One of the small green granulelike bodies found in the interior of certain stentors, hydras, and other invertebrates.

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.

The common support, often branched, of certain species of social Infusoria.

The branched, and often treelike, support of the colonies of certain Infusoria.

One of the cells or tubes which inclose the feeling zooids of Bryozoa. See Illust. of Sea Moss.

A peculiar organic red coloring matter found in the feathers of various birds.

Of or pertaining zoogamy.

The sexual reproduction of animals.

Of or pertaining to zoogeny, animal production.

Of or pertaining to zoography.

The study or description of the geographical distribution of animals.

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.

The doctrine of the formation of living beings.

One who describes animals, their forms and habits.

Of or pertaining to the description of animals.

A zoographer.

A description of animals, their forms and habits.

An organic body or cell having locomotion, as a spermatic cell or spermatozooid.

Of or pertaining to a zooid; as, a zooidal form.

The worship of animals.

A Zoologist.

Of or pertaining to Zoology, or the science of animals.

In a Zoological manner; according to the principles of Zoology.

One who is well versed in Zoology.

To study Zoology; esp., to collect animals for study.

A pigment giving the black color to the feathers of many birds.

Of or pertaining to zoomorphism.

The transformation of men into beasts.

An animal which is the sole product of a single egg; -- opposed to zooid. Any one of the perfectly developed individuals of a compound animal.

Of or pertaining to animals; obtained from animal substances.

One of the segments of the body of an articulate animal. One of the theoretic transverse divisions of any segmented animal.

The laws of animal life, or the science which treats of the phenomena of animal life, their causes and relations.

Same as Zoonite.

Animal pathology.

An artificial group comprising various carnivorous and insectivorous animals.

A animal that feeds on animal food.

Feeding on animals.

Love of animals.

A zoophyte.

Bearing or supporting the figure of an animal; as, a zoophoric column.

The part between the architrave and cornice; the frieze; -- so called from the figures of animals carved upon it.

An extensive artificial and heterogeneous group of animals, formerly adopted by many Zoologists. It included the c/lenterates, echinoderms, sponges, Bryozoa, Protozoa, etc.

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. Any one of the Zoophyta.

Of or pertaining to zoophytes.

Pertaining to, or resembling, a zoophyte.

Of or pertaining to zoophytology; as, zoophytological observations.

The natural history zoophytes.

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.

Animal psychology.

One of the spermatic particles; spermatozoid.

A spore, or conceptacle containing zoospores.

Of or pertaining to zoospores; of the nature of zoospores.

Containing the remains of organized bodies; -- said of rock or soil.

Of or pertaining to zootomy.

One who dissects animals, or is skilled in zootomy.

The dissection or the anatomy of animals; -- distinguished from androtomy.

Of or pertaining to the nourishment of animals.

The wood pigeon.

A European fresh-water bream (Abramis ballerus).

The urubu, or American black vulture.

Same as Zorilla.

Either one of two species of small African carnivores of the genus Ictonyx allied to the weasels and skunks.

The persian prophet Zarathustra, who probably lived in the second millenium B. C. His treachings form the basis for the religion Zoroastrianism.

A follower of Zoroaster; one who accepts 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.

Same as Zoroastrianism.

Shingles.

A genus of plants of the Naiadaceae, or Pondweed family. Zostera marina is commonly known as sea wrack, and eelgrass.

A genus of birds that comprises the white-eyes. See White-eye.

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. Hence, one of a body of soldiers who adopt the dress and drill of the Zouaves, as was done by a number of volunteer regiments in the army of the United States in the Civil War, 1861-65.

An exclamation formerly used as an oath, and an expression of anger or wonder.

To stew, as flounders, eels, etc., with just enough or liquid to cover them.

The aurochs.

A stump of a tree.

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.

A little flute or flageolet, especially that which is used to teach birds.

The American widgeon.

Any member of the tribe of Zulus; a Zulu-Kaffir. See Zulus.

A member of the Bantu race comprising the Zulus and the Kaffirs.

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.

A small cannon supported by a swiveled rest on the back of a camel, whence it is fired, -- used in the East.

See Zymic, Zymological, etc.

A tribe of Pueblo Indians occupying a village in New Mexico, on the Zu/i River.

Of or pertaining to the Zu/is, or designating their linguistic stock. A Zu/i.

A fluosilicate of alumina occurring in tetrahedral crystals at the Zu/i mine in Colorado.

An Austrian silver coin equivalent to 20 kreutzers, or about 10 cents.

A kind of biscuit or rusk first baked in a loaf and afterwards cut and toasted.

Of or pertaining to Ulric Zwingli (1481-1531), the reformer of German Switzerland, who maintained that in the Lord's 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. A follower of Zwingli.

See under Zygosphene.

One of the articular processes of a vertebra, of which there are usually four, two anterior and two posterior. See under Vertebra.

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.

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.

Of or pertaining to the Zygobranchia.

The zygodactylous birds. In a restricted sense applied to a division of birds which includes the barbets, toucans, honey guides, and other related birds.

Any zygodactylous bird.

Same as Scansores.

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.