| Words | Parts of Speech | Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
|---|---|---|
| zoccolo | noun | Same as Socle. |
| zoilean | adjective | Having the characteristic of Zoilus, a bitter, envious, unjust critic, who lived about 270 years before Christ. |
| zoilism | noun | Resemblance to Zoilus in style or manner; carping criticism; detraction. |
| zoisite | noun | 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. |
| zonaria | noun pl. | A division of Mammalia in which the placenta is zonelike. |
| zonular | adjective | Of or pertaining to a zone; zone-shaped. |
| zonulet | noun | A zonule. |
| zoocyst | noun | 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. |
| zooecia | plural | of Zooecium |
| zoogamy | noun | The sexual reproduction of animals. |
| zoogeny | noun | Alt. of Zoogony |
| zoogony | noun | The doctrine of the formation of living beings. |
| zooidal | adjective | Of or pertaining to a zooid; as, a zooidal form. |
| zoology | noun | 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., A treatise on this science. |
| zoonite | noun | One of the segments of the body of an articulate animal., One of the theoretic transverse divisions of any segmented animal. |
| zoonomy | noun | The laws of animal life, or the science which treats of the phenomena of animal life, their causes and relations. |
| zoonule | noun | Same as Zoonite. |
| zootomy | noun | The dissection or the anatomy of animals; — distinguished from androtomy. |
| zorilla | noun | Either one of two species of small African carnivores of the genus Ictonyx allied to the weasels and skunks. |
| zostera | noun | A genus of plants of the Naiadaceae, or Pondweed family. Zostera marina is commonly known as sea wrack, and eelgrass. |