English English Dictionary

English English Dictionary

The online English-English dictionary from The Project Gutenberg

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Zircona (n.)
Zirconia.
Zirconate (n.)
A salt of zirconic acid.
Zirconia (n.)
The oxide of zirconium, obtained as a white powder, and possessing both acid and basic properties. On account of its infusibility, and brilliant luminosity when incandescent, it is used as an ingredient of sticks for the Drummomd light.
Zirconic (a.)
Pertaining to, containing, or resembling, zirconium; as, zirconic oxide; zirconic compounds.
Zirconium (n.)
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.
Zircono
See Zirco-.
Zirconoid (n.)
A double eight-sided pyramid, a form common with tetragonal crystals; -- so called because this form often occurs in crystals of zircon.
Zither (n.)
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. [Not to be confounded with the old lute-shaped cittern, or cithern.]
Zittern (n.)
See Cittern.
Zizania (n.)
A genus of grasses including Indian rice. See Indian rice, under Rice.
Zizel (n.)
The suslik.
Zoa (pl. )
of Zoon
Zoanthacea (n. pl.)
A suborder of Actinaria, including Zoanthus and allied genera, which are permanently attached by their bases.
Zoantharia (n. pl.)
Same as Anthozoa.
Zoantharian (a.)
Of or pertaining to the Zoantharia.
Zoantharian (n.)
One of the Anthozoa.
Zoanthodeme (n.)
The zooids of a compound anthozoan, collectively.
Zoanthoid (a.)
Of or pertaining to the Zoanthacea.
Zoanthropy (n.)
A kind of monomania in which the patient believes himself transformed into one of the lower animals.
Zoanthus (n.)
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.