cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
let in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: lets in
form: letting in
form: let in
form: let in
Senses: examples: text: He opened the window to let in the air.
antonyms: keep out#Verb
lock out#Verb
glosses: To let someone or something come in; to admit someone or something in.
examples: text: So tell me when you're gonna let me in / I'm getting tired and I need somewhere to begin
ref: 2004, “Somewhere Only We Know”, in Hopes and Fears, performed by Keane:
antonyms: keep out#Verb
lock out#Verb
glosses: To let someone or something come in; to admit someone or something in.
To divulge one's inner thoughts to (someone), making oneself emotionally vulnerable to them; to open up to (someone).
examples: text: He has also been good enough to recommend to me many tradesmen who are ready to supply these articles in any quantities; each of whom has been here already a dozen times, cap in hand, and vowing that it is quite immaterial when I pay—which is very kind of them; but, with the highest respect for friend Perkins (my scout) and his obliging friends, I shall make some enquiries before "letting in" with any of them.
ref: 1859, Thomas Hughes, chapter 1, in Tom Brown at Oxford:
qualifier: Oxford University slang
glosses: To associate with.
examples: text: He let me in heavily.
glosses: To cheat or victimize.
Related terms: let in on
leaping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈliːpɪŋ/
rhymes: -iːpɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of leap
solipsistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more solipsistic
form: most solipsistic
Etymology: From solips(ism) + -istic.
Senses: examples: text: For Philip there was only this solipsistic stroking, by definition nameless.
ref: 1986, David Leavitt, The Lost Language of Cranes, paperback edition, Penguin, page 73:
glosses: Of, relating to, or being disposed to solipsism.
glosses: Self-centred, selfish, unaware or out of touch with the views or needs of others.
Ewok
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Ewoks
Etymology: Coined by American filmmaker George Lucas in 1983 from the syllabic reverse of Wookiee. The name first appeared in the end titles of the film Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi.
Senses: examples: text: Those vampire-wanna-bes, who are actually cute in a Ewok/troll doll sort of way, pick their teeth nightly after a six-course wing fling.
ref: 2000, Lori Torrance, Tea for Texas: A Guide to Tearooms in the State, page 15:
text: Tripping a walker the size of a house is difficult but not impossible. You will need high-tensile wire and suitably grounded posts. Ask your Ewok friends for help.
ref: 2005, Daniel H. Wilson, How to Survive a Robot Uprising, Bloomsbury,, →ISBN, page 134:
text: My answer to those who believe that all Bigfoot are just huge cuddly Ewoks is to remind them that there is plenty of evidence that every member of the great apes family […] has exhibited hostility […].
ref: 2007, Matthew Scott Hansen, The Shadowkiller: A Novel, page 434:
text: She looked like a little plump Ewok, standing with Big Foot.
ref: 2008, Grace Octavia, His First Wife, Dafina Books,, →ISBN, page 30:
text: It’s been claimed that Jon has a string of mistresses, that Kate had an affair with her bodyguard and that Baby Number Six is actually a shaved Ewok with a catastrophic heroin addiction. Or something.
ref: 2009 May 22, Stuart Heritage, “Jon & Kate Latest: People You Don’t Know Do Crap You Don’t Care About”, in Hecklerspray, archived from the original on 15 Apr 2024:
glosses: A member of a fictional, primitive race of teddy-bear-like creatures.
wikipedia: Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi
Thomism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: human-sciences
lifestyle
philosophy
religion
sciences
theology
glosses: The philosophy and theology of Thomas Aquinas.
Derived terms: neo-Thomism
Related terms: Thomist
kop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kops
Etymology: From Afrikaans kop, from Dutch kop, from Middle Dutch cop.
Senses: examples: text: […] a zigzag line of Lee-Enfield flashes, and a charge which took the kop at a cost of ten casualties. The victors held the key to the Ladysmith lock.
ref: 2012, William Manchester, Paul Reid, The Last Lion Box Set: Winston Spencer Churchill, 1874 - 1965, Little, Brown, →ISBN:
text: Within three hours, we took the kop. The dead and wounded were everywhere.
The Boers had taken the kop, collected their prisoners and had suffered very few casualties. However, they did not have the strength to hold the prisoners […]
ref: 2014, Colin D. Heaton, Four-War Boer: The Century and Life of Pieter Arnoldus Krueler, Casemate, →ISBN:
text: A party of burghers, under Commandant Nel, of Kroonstad, were ordered to station themselves on a kop with a flat top, called Swartbooiskop, an hour and a half to the south of Nicholson's Nek.
ref: 2019, Christiaan Rudolf De Wet, Three Years' War, Good Press:
glosses: A hill or mountain.
Derived terms: Kopite
Related terms: koppie
kop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kops
Senses: examples: text: The solerets are wide-toed, […]; the wings of the elbow and knee-kops small. The inner bends of the elbow joints are furnished with a pliable protection of numerous very narrow plates.
ref: 1917, Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle upon Tyne, Proceedings, page 134:
text: 1. Elbow Kop with rope-cable border.
2. Part of left Pauldron (shoulder piece) with similar border.
ref: 1994, Archaeologia Cambrensis:
glosses: Rare spelling of cop (“dome, in armor”).
British Indian Ocean Territory
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An archipelago and overseas territory of the United Kingdom that is used as a US military base in the middle of the Indian Ocean between Africa and Indonesia.
aida
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aidas
Senses: examples: text: Use a size 24 needle for most aidas, and a size 26 for evenweaves and linens.
ref: 2021, Cross Stitcher, April 2021 edition, page 81:
text: The benefit however of stitching on a higher count aida is that the overall project will be smaller, and you can fit in a greater level of detail.
ref: 2022, Sally Wilson, Jump Into Cross Stitch, →ISBN, page 8:
text: Each of the projects in this book use 14 count aida, which means there are fourteen squares (or stitches) per inch of fabric.
ref: 2024, Sophie Crabb, Sew Mindful Cross Stitch, →ISBN, page 11:
glosses: Synonym of Aida cloth.
synonyms: word: Aida cloth
penni
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɛni/
homophone: penny
Forms: form: pennis
form: pennia
Etymology: From Finnish penni. Doublet of penny.
Senses: examples: text: The Finnish monetary unit is the Finnish mark or markka (Fmk), which is divided into 100 pennis (p).
ref: 1980, Nagel Publishers, Finland, page 271:
glosses: A former Finnish currency unit, worth ¹⁄₁₀₀ of the markka.
aite
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: Aite then! After the game we will rap about getting you down to the gym so we can work.
ref: 2018, DeMarcus Rogers, Chasing Faith, page 100:
text: I was like Aite, fasho, putting my hands up.
ref: 2022, Sean Thor Conroe, Fuccboi, Hachette, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of aight.
limnologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: limnologists
Etymology: From limnology + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: Devils Lake is where I began my career as a limnologist in 1964, studying the lake’s neotenic salamanders and chironomids, or midge flies. […] The Devils Lake Basin is an endorheic, or closed, basin covering about 9,800 square kilometers in northeastern North Dakota.
ref: 2012 January 24, Douglas Larson, “Runaway Devils Lake”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 1, archived from the original on 23 May 2012, page 46:
glosses: A specialist in limnology.
Derived terms: paleolimnologist
geographer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒiːˈɒɡ.ɹə.fə(ɹ)/
ipa: /d͡ʒiˈɑ.ɡɹə.fɚ/
ipa: /d͡ʒiːˈɔɡ.ɹə.fə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: geographers
Etymology: From geo- + -grapher.
Senses: examples: text: Alternatively, geographers Simon Lewis and Mark Maslin have suggested that 1610 might be a better candidate for a crucial human-induced step change.
ref: 2016 September 8, Noel Castree, “Has humans’ impact brought about a new era for the Earth?”, in CNN:
text: Some experts, such as geographer Jared Diamond in his 2005 book, “Collapse,” used Easter Island as a cautionary tale of how the exploitation of limited resources can result in catastrophic population decline, ecological devastation and the destruction of a society through infighting.
ref: 2024 September 14, Katie Hunt, “New evidence upends contentious Easter Island theory, scientists say”, in CNN:
glosses: A specialist in geography.
Derived terms: anthropogeographer
biogeographer
ethnogeographer
hydrogeographer
nongeographer
ornithogeographer
palaeogeographer
phylogeographer
phytogeographer
psychogeographer
zoogeographer
ruderal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ruderals
Etymology: Borrowed from New Latin rūderālis, from Latin rūdus (“rubble”).
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Any plant growing in rubbish or very poor soil
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A plant tending to volunteer in disturbed soil.
ruderal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ruderal
form: most ruderal
Etymology: Borrowed from New Latin rūderālis, from Latin rūdus (“rubble”).
Senses: examples: text: Rafinesque perfected his variant of this honorable philosophy while botanizing in the literal backyards of my childhood, examining ruderal plants I've known all my life, and so I have appropriated it from him, with minor tweaks.
ref: 2011, John Jeremiah Sullivan, Pulphead:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: That grows in rubbish or poor soil
Coordinate terms: agrestic
Related terms: ruderalise
leptogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more leptogenic
form: most leptogenic
Etymology: From lepto- + -genic.
Senses: examples: text: With leptogenic drugs, he lost the weight he gained because of his treatment.
glosses: Causing weight loss
examples: text: Some of these leptogenic models of supersymmetry could even be probed by the LHC.
glosses: Pertaining to leptogenesis, the creation of leptons
food desert
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fuːd ˈdɛzə(ɹ)t/
ipa: /fud ˈdɛzɚt/
Forms: form: food deserts
Etymology: A report by Cummins and Macintyre states that a resident of public housing in western Scotland supposedly coined the more specific phrase "food desert" in the early 1990s. The phrase was first officially used in a 1995 document from a policy working group on the Low Income Project Team of the UK's Nutrition Task Force.
Senses: examples: text: For years, major supermarket chains have been criticized for abandoning densely populated, largely black and Latino communities in cities like Detroit, Los Angeles, Memphis and Newark, N.J. — contributing to what many experts call food deserts.
ref: 2009 May 26, Steven Gray, “Can America's urban food deserts bloom?”, in Time, archived from the original on 28 Jan 2016:
text: More precisely, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) defines a food desert as any census district where at least 20 percent of the inhabitants are below the poverty line and 33 percent live over a mile from the nearest supermarket (or in rural areas, more than 10 miles).
ref: 2011 August 12, “America's ‘food deserts’”, in The Week, archived from the original on 28 May 2016:
text: New Orleans' Ninth Ward is what the U.S. Department of Agriculture calls a "food desert." Food deserts are communities with little or no access to healthy food.
ref: 2012 October 5, Judy Valente, “Food Deserts”, in Religion & Ethics Newsweekly, PBS, archived from the original on 10 Sep 2016:
coordinate_terms: food oasis
food swamp
glosses: A populated region where food, especially healthy food, is difficult to obtain.
Related terms: food bowl
alpha geek
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alpha geeks
Senses: glosses: The person in a group who displays the most experience or knowledge, especially with respect to technology.
azoted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From azote + -ed.
Senses: examples: 187-?: Aitkin, Medical Dictionary
As animals are fed on animal diet or on azoted substances […]
glosses: nitrogenized
Zyrian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Russian зыряне (zyrjane).
Senses: glosses: A Finnic language spoken by the Komi people.
Synonyms: Komi
Komi-Zyrian
Zyrian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Zyrians
Etymology: From Russian зыряне (zyrjane).
Senses: glosses: A member of the Komi people.
zymotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /zaɪˈmɒtɪk/
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ζυμωτικός (zumōtikós, “causing fermentation”), from ζυμοῦν (zumoûn).
Senses: glosses: Of or causing fermentation.
examples: text: […] these […] accounts by no means bear out the zymotic doctrine of the Board of Health as to the cause of cholera; for where the zymotic influences from the sewers were the worst, […] the cholera was the least destructive.
ref: 1851, Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor, volume 2, London: G. Newbold, page 395:
text: The incidence of zymotic diseases upon any particular organ or set of organs, is, of course, well recognised; one recalls the nephritis of scarlatina, the endocarditis of rheumatism, gastritis of rabies, and—perhaps the most striking instance of the selective affinity of disease for specific local manifestation—the lesions of foot-and-mouth disease.
ref: 1901 August 16, H. Watkins-Pitchford, “Horsesickness”, in The Agricultural Journal and Mining Record, volume 4, number 12, page 354:
text: Farr concluded that overcrowding was the main determinant of high mortality from what (following Liebig) he style ‘zymotic diseases’.
ref: 1997, Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind, Folio Society, published 2016, page 394:
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Infectious, contagious, of diseases originally regarded as being caused by a process similar to fermentation.
Derived terms: word: zymotically
Related terms: alt: n
word: zyme
alt: n
word: zymosis
zymosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zymoses
Etymology: From zym- + -osis.
Senses: glosses: A fermentation; hence, an analogous process by which an infectious disease is believed to be developed.
glosses: A zymotic disease.
Related terms: zymotechnics
zymotechnology
zymurgy
zymome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zimome
form: zymom
Etymology: Coined in 1819 by G. Taddei, along with gliadine. Compare zymo-.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
synonyms: vegetable fibrin
vegetable albumin
gluten casein
glosses: A glutinous substance, insoluble in alcohol, resembling legumin.
zymogen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zymogens
Etymology: From zymo- + -gen.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A proenzyme, or enzyme precursor, which requires a biochemical change (i.e. hydrolysis) to become an active form of the enzyme.
zymic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: By surface analysis, zyme + -ic; or, by surface analysis, zym- + -ic
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Pertaining to, or produced by, fermentation.
Related terms: antizymic
zymosis
zymotechnics
zymurgy
zyme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /zaɪm/
rhymes: -aɪm
Forms: form: zymes
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ζύμη (zúmē, “leaven”).
Senses: glosses: A ferment.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The morbific principle of a zymotic disease.
zygospore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zygospores
Etymology: From zygo- + spore.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A zygosperm.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A spore formed by the union of several zoospores.
Synonyms: sense: zygosperm
word: zygosperm
sense: spore formed by the union of several zoospores
word: zygozoospore
zygosphene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zygosphenes
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A median process on the front part of the neural arch of the vertebrae of most snakes and some lizards, which fits into a fossa called the zygantrum on the back part of the arch in front
Related terms: zygosphenal
zygosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zygoses
Etymology: From zygo- + -osis.
Senses: examples: Near-synonym: zygogenesis
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The union of gametes to form a zygote; conjugation.
zygobranchiate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more zygobranchiate
form: most zygobranchiate
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Of or pertaining to the Zygobranchia
limicoline
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more limicoline
form: most limicoline
Senses: glosses: Shore-dwelling, usually said of certain wading birds, such as snipes and plovers.
Related terms: limicolous
zygantrum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zygantra
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A depression on the back of a vertebrae into which the zygosphene fits.
expiry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪkˈspaɪ.əɹ.i/
ipa: /ɛkˈspaɪ.əɹ.i/
rhymes: -aɪəɹi
Forms: form: expiries
Etymology: From expire + -y.
Senses: glosses: End; termination; expiration.
glosses: Death.
glosses: Synonym of expiration date.
synonyms: word: expiration date
Derived terms: expiry date
nonexpiry
time to expiry
Related terms: expiration
expire
zwanziger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zwanzigers
Etymology: From German Zwanziger; see zwanzig (“twenty”).
Senses: glosses: An Austrian silver coin equivalent to 20 kreutzers.
zuz
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zuzim
form: zuzzim
form: zuzes
Etymology: From Hebrew זוּז (zūz), from Aramaic זוּזָא (zūzā).
Senses: glosses: An ancient Hebrew silver coin, one quarter of a shekel.
disseminule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: disseminules
Senses: glosses: A seed fruit that has been modified for migration.
Derived terms: plumed disseminule
Related terms: disseminate
zythepsary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zythepsaries
Etymology: Derived from Ancient Greek ζῦθος (zûthos, “barley beer”) + ἕψω (hépsō, “to boil”).
Senses: examples: text: 1861, uncredited contributor, “Wandering Words” in All the Year Round, Volume 5, No. 106, 4 May, 1961, p. 144,
But the oddest things of all are to be found in the dictionaries. Why they are all kept there no one knows; but what man in his senses would use such words as zythepsary for a brew-house, and zumologist for a brewer […]
text: ...and we Employ the same old diastase In orgulous zythepsaries.
ref: 1937, Saturday Review of Literature - Volume 17, page 13:
text: Zythepsary equipment — there's a vast change nowadays!
ref: 1950, The Listener - Volume 43, page 451:
text: He was full of inkhorn words going so far as to call grog shops zythepsaries, which seemed several syllables too long to be uttered by any I had ever met within such places […]
ref: 2001, Richard Flanagan, “The Porcupine Fish”, in Gould’s Book of Fish, New York: Grove, VI, p. 121:
glosses: A brewery.
Related terms: zymurgy
zythem
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of zythum.
zymose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From zymo- + -ose.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: invertin
chlamys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈklæmɪs/
ipa: /ˈklamɪs/
Forms: form: chlamyses
form: chlamydes
Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek χλᾰμῠ́ς (khlămŭ́s).
Senses: examples: text: He unfolded the chlamys, stretched it out with both hands before me, and then cast it over my shoulders.
ref: 1824–1829, Walter Savage Landor, “Æsop and Rhosope”, in Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: […] Taylor and Hessey, […]:
text: The horse was not in the least like a Greek horse (nor even a Trojan), and F.M. the Duke of Wellington was not represented with the ensis or short sword in his grasp, the chlamys flying from his shoulder, or the paludamentum, as more suitable for the cool of the English climate (totidem divisos orbe &c.), the kothornos on his leg, the galea slung at the crupper? no reins, and his naked nether-man, not (as in these precious models) seated on the bare back of the bull-necked, square-jawed, dray-limbed steed.
ref: 1847, “The Wellington Statue”, in The Literary Gazette and Journal of Belles Lettres, Arts, Sciences, &c., London, page 523, column 2:
text: A male god stands in three-quarter view to right, wearing a chlamys fastened at his right shoulder with a round clasp.
ref: 1977, Mary Carol Sturgeon, Sculpture: the Reliefs from the Theater, page 38:
glosses: A short poncho-like cloak caught up on the shoulder, worn by hunters, soldiers, and horsemen in Ancient Greece.
Derived terms: chlamydeous
Related terms: chiton
exomis
himation
peplos
peplum
zymophyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈzaɪmə(ʊ)faɪt/
Forms: form: zymophytes
Etymology: From zymo- (“yeast”) + -phyte (“plant”).
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A fermentation produced by bacteria, yeasts or similar micro-organisms.
zymometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zymometers
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ζυμόω (zumóō, “to leaven”). By surface analysis, zymo- + -meter.
Senses: synonyms: zymoscope
zymosimeter
glosses: An instrument for ascertaining the degree of fermentation occasioned by the mixture of different liquids, and the degree of heat which they acquire in fermentation.
technosexual
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: tĕk′nō-sĕk′sho͞o-əl
ipa: /ˌtɛk.nəʊˈsɛk.ʃuː.əl/
ipa: /ˌtɛk.noʊˈsɛk.ʃu.əl/
rhymes: -ɛkʃuəl
rhymes: -ɛkʃuːəl
Etymology: From techno- + -sexual. First attested (as techno-sexual) in the 18 May 1970 edition of New York Magazine. Not attested again until the late 1990s, as technosexual.
Senses: examples: text: […] Women of the time were constructed to be the technosexual Other, robot-like & programmable, as in Fritz Lang's film Metropolis (1927). Other images of women as sex machine in film & literature of the time are described. […]
ref: 1997, Janet Lungstrum, Metropolis and the Technosexual Woman of German Modernity, in Women in the Metropolis: Gender and Modernity in Weimar Culture (Katharina von Ankum, editor; Berkley: UC Press), pages 128-144; abstract
text: By contrast, women artists who considered the theme of the mannequin-woman precisely undermined this form of elision between women on the street and the idealised technosexual forms of woman displayed in magazines, shop windows and on advertising poles.
ref: 1999, Marsha Meskimmon, We Weren't Modern Enough: Women Artists and the Limits of German Modernism, page 61:
text: It is a technosexual dominance marked by order, control, and precision, one which seeks to reduce the Other to disorder, chaos, and destruction through discourses of homophobia and masculinity.
ref: 2007, Ashley Dawson, Malini Johar Schueller, Exceptional State: Contemporary U.S. Culture and the New Imperialism, page 167:
glosses: Technologically sexual: sexual in a robot-like (for example, programmable) way.
examples: text: Immediate fallout from the scandal included a call for the mayor's resignation from the city's 900-member municipal union and public embarrassment for Kilpatrick's wife and family as the tragic technosexual tale spread nationwide thanks to coverage in […] prominent media outlets.
ref: 2009, Nancy Flynn, The E-Policy Handbook: Rules and Best Practices to Safely Manage Your Company's E-Mail, Blogs, Social Networking, and Other Electronic Communication Tools, page 161:
text: They discuss the implications of online dating; online pornography; virtual sex in the fantasy worlds of Second Life and The Sims; and technosexual intercourse, an activity traditionally associated with phone sex but now embracing all manner of cyber-based connections such as "sexting" (sexually explicit text messaging) and erotic instant messaging.
ref: 2010, Daniel Reimold, Sex and the University: Celebrity, Controversy, and a Student Journalism Revolution, page 87:
text: Aiming at a slightly older crowd, Calvin Klein introduced a pair of perfumes for the "technosexual generation" — the company's phrase, not mine — named CK in2U. The ad campaign featured the lines "She likes how he blogs, her texts turn him on. It's intense. For right now."
ref: 2011, Mark Abley, The Prodigal Tongue: Dispatches from the Future of English, page 227:
glosses: Expressing, or pertaining to the expression of, sexuality through technology or technological media.
Related terms: technosex
technosexuality
technosexual
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: tĕk′nō-sĕk′sho͞o-əl
ipa: /ˌtɛk.nəʊˈsɛk.ʃuː.əl/
ipa: /ˌtɛk.noʊˈsɛk.ʃu.əl/
rhymes: -ɛkʃuəl
rhymes: -ɛkʃuːəl
Forms: form: technosexuals
Etymology: From techno- + -sexual. First attested (as techno-sexual) in the 18 May 1970 edition of New York Magazine. Not attested again until the late 1990s, as technosexual.
Senses: examples: text: At this rate, I may give up on women entirely and become a technosexual.
ref: 2004 March 22, Robert X. Cringeley, “Always the Last to Know”, in InfoWorld, number 12, page 14:
text: LESLIE: Don't forget, I was fucking a machine, not a man.
GARY: What does that make you then, technosexual?
ref: 2005, Johnny Blue, The Blue Riders' Club, Trafford, page 59:
text: Plankton isn’t gay; he’s technosexual. His wife, Karen -- the apple of his one and only eye -- is a computer.
ref: 2005, Dennis Hans, “Plankton's insidious technosexual agenda”, in National Catholic Reporter:
text: There is no single, stereotypical sex doll user. These curious, ever-evolving objects are desired by some for their artistic quality, by others for their complicit silence. The technosexual admires their cold, emotionless, robotic texture, […]
ref: 2010, Anthony Ferguson, The Sex Doll: A History, page 204:
glosses: Someone with a sexual fetish for or sexual attraction to machines, robots, computers or androids.
examples: text: Metrosexuals have opened the door to close kin such as technosexuals (basically, metrosexuals who like gadgets).
ref: 2006, Business Venezuela, issues 275-279 (Venezuelan-American Chamber of Commerce)
text: But fast forward to today and it seems Mr. Joe has become a full-blown technosexual icon […]
ref: 2007 May 9, Samantha Brett, Sydney Morning Herald, "Ask Sam TV Ep 10 - What women want next: the technosexual?" https://web.archive.org/web/20120402204111/http://blogs.smh.com.au/lifestyle/asksam/archives/2007/05/sam_and_the_tv_ep_10_what_wome.html
text: The technosexual fucks the network (this is not rape, for the network is receptive by design), ejaculating signs, creating a form of pornography aligned with his or her desire (this is not always an act of conscious exhibitionism); […]
ref: 2010, Eric Freedman, Transient Images: Personal Media in Public Frameworks, page 166:
glosses: A person, especially a male metrosexual, who expresses himself or herself (including in terms of sexuality) through technological devices.
zymology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /zaɪˈmɒləd͡ʒi/
ipa: /zaɪˈmɑləd͡ʒi/
rhymes: -ɒlədʒi
Forms: form: zumology
Etymology: From zymo- (prefix meaning ‘fermentation’) + -logy (suffix denoting the study of a particular subject).
Senses: glosses: The chemistry of fermentation with yeasts, especially the science involved in beermaking and winemaking; zymurgy.
glosses: A treatise on the use of fermentation to produce liquors.
Derived terms: zymologic
zymological
zymologist
zymologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zymologists
form: zumologist
Etymology: From zymology + -ist.
Senses: glosses: One who is skilled in zymology, or in the fermentation of liquors.
zymogene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zymogenes
Etymology: From zymo- + -gene.
Senses: examples: text: It thus prevents these from converting the zymogene into the ferment.
ref: 1892, American Journal of Pharmacy and the Sciences Supporting Public Health, page 203:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: One of a physiological group of globular bacteria that produce fermentations of diverse nature; — distinguished from pathogene.
examples: text: From these researches, it is concluded that a portion of the amylase is present in the potato in the form of zymogene which is transformed into an active enzyme towards the end of the resting stage;
ref: 1916, International Review of the Science and Practice of Agriculture, page 1094:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Alternative form of zymogen.
nouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of nose + mouse
Senses: examples: text: Our noses are no longer just for smelling things, but can be used for moving things too in operating a nouse, a device which has the same pointing function as a computer mouse but is controlled by movements of the nose.
ref: 2007, Kerry Maxwell, Brave New Words: A Language Lover's Guide to the 21st Century, page 128:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A form of computer mouse operated with the nose.
nouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of nous (“sense, intelligence”).
soredium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: soredia
Etymology: Latinate form from Ancient Greek σωρός (sōrós, “heap”).
Senses: topics: biology
botany
lichenology
natural-sciences
glosses: A common scalelike reproductive structure in lichens consisting of algal cells enveloped in a network of hyphae.
zylonite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zylonites
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of xylonite.
zygosperm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zygosperms
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A spore formed by the union of the contents of two similar cells, either of the same or of distinct individual plants. They are found in certain orders of algae and fungi.
Synonyms: zygospore
colliery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒl.jə.ɹi/
ipa: /ˈkɑl.jɚ.ɪ/
Forms: form: collieries
Etymology: From collier + -y.
Senses: examples: text: From the hillock a score of red paths diverged as black ones do from a colliery, one of them leading to the homestead itself […]
ref: 1938, Xavier Herbert, “Chapter VII”, in Capricornia, page 91:
glosses: An underground coal mine, together with its surface buildings.
glosses: A facility that supplies coal.
Derived terms: Blackhall Colliery
Boldon Colliery
Colliery Row
Cornsay Colliery
Easington Colliery
Shotton Colliery
zygophyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈzaɪɡə(ʊ)faɪt/
/ˈzɪɡə(ʊ)faɪt/
Forms: form: zygophytes
Etymology: From zygo- (“union; pair”) + -phyte (“plant”).
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Any plant of a formerly proposed class or grand division (Zygophytes, Zygophyta, or Zygosporeae), in which reproduction consists in the union of two similar cells.
Related terms: oophyte
make for
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: makes for
form: making for
form: made for
form: made for
Senses: examples: text: He makes for England, there to claim the crown.
ref: c. 1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Richard the Third: […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iv]:
text: [H]e disappeared into his house much as a startled weasel makes for its hole.
ref: 1888, J[ames] M[atthew] Barrie, “The Schoolhouse”, in Auld Licht Idylls, London: Hodder and Stoughton, […], →OCLC, page 6:
synonyms: head for
glosses: To set out to go (somewhere); to move towards.
examples: text: It was such a day as one dreams about, with that pleasant warmth in the air that makes for indolent content.
ref: 1914, William MacLeod Raine, chapter 11, in The Pirate of Panama:
text: A tiny cub is learning the art of stalking a little too well it seems. A video posted on social media shows the cub surprising its mamma and giving her a huge fright. The short clip makes for a delightful watch.
ref: 2019 October 9, "Tiny cub gives lion a huge fright", Hindustan Times
text: It's not the longest or tallest viaduct in Britain, but the landscape upon which it sits makes for a stunning backdrop.
ref: 2025 October 1, Chris Howe, “Top 10: Britain's most significant rail bridges: Ribblehead Viaduct”, in RAIL, number 1045, page 57:
glosses: To tend to produce or result in.
examples: text: I don't agree, but they make him for a criminal.
glosses: To identify; to connect.
examples: text: Secondly, we will examine the Cœlestiall Phœnomena that make for the Copernican Hypothesis, as if it were to prove absolutely victorious; […]
ref: 1830, E.S. Carlos (translator), Galileo Galilei (author), “The Siderial Messenger”, reprinted in Louise Fargo Brown and George Barr Carson, Men and Centuries of European Civilization, Ayer Publishing (1971), page 427
text: Several very curious varieties of Blues have been taken, which appear to make for Darwin’s theory.
ref: 1868 December 1, T.W. Wonfor, “Rare Visitors at Brighton”, in M.C. Cooke, editor, Hardwicke's Science-Gossip, Robert Hardwicke, published 1869, page 278:
text: That they are “conditions of thought” does not make for Kant’s theory of the categories one iota more than it makes for the theory of Aristotle or for the theory of Locke.
ref: 1912, Simon FitzSimons, “Criticisms in Kant”, in The American Catholic Quarterly Review, volume 37, page 148:
glosses: To confirm, favour, strengthen (an opinion, theory, etc.).
examples: text: I made this picture for my Dad.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see make, for.
zygodactylæ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of zygodactylae.
zygodactyl
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From zygo- + -dactyl.
Senses: examples: text: In parrots, the tarsometatarsus has a distinct shape resulting from the particular arrangement of parrot toes. As zygodactyl birds, toes number 2 and 3 are facing forward, while toes 1 and 4 are facing backwards.
ref: 2016 November 16, Hanneke Meijer, “Sunny steppes? A tiny parrot fossil suggests Siberia was once subtropical”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Having two toes pointing forward, and two pointing backward; zygodactylous.
zygodactyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zygodactyls
Etymology: From zygo- + -dactyl.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
ornithology
glosses: Any bird with toes of this kind, such as the parrot.
zygenid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to moths in the family Zygaenidae.
zygenid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zygenids
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any one of numerous species of moths of the family Zygaenidae, most of which are bright colored.
Hyponyms: wood nymph
forester
cyberslacking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cyber- + slacking.
Senses: examples: text: From an organizational perspective, cyberslacking may also create positive externalities in terms of teleworkers being able to create virtual water cooler effects in terms of online chatting with affiliated and nonaffiliated workers.
ref: 2017, Peter K. Ross, Susan Ressia, Elizabeth J. Sander, Work in the 21st Century: How Do I Log On?, page 32:
glosses: Use of the Internet during work hours for unrelated tasks.
zunyite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after the Zuni mine, in Colorado; see -ite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A fluorosilicate mineral of alumina occurring in tetrahedral crystals, chemical formula Al₁₃Si₅O₂₀(OH,F)₁₈Cl.
Zuñis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Zuñi
zumbooruk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zumbooruks
Senses: examples: text: It was a long one, ranging from (but I may have misremembered) antipedobaptism to the illegal importation of zumbooruks.
ref: 1971, Anthony Burgess, M/F, Penguin, published 2004, page 87:
glosses: Alternative spelling of zamburak.
grief tourist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grief tourists
Senses: glosses: One who journeys to areas where tragedies have occurred, for that reason.
Zulus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Zulu
zuisin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zuisins
Etymology: Probably from an Algonquian language; compare Ojibwe zhiishiib (“duck”).
Senses: glosses: The American wigeon.
rubbernecking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹʊbɚˌnɛkɪŋ/
Etymology: From rubber + neck + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: "The resulting wreckage blocks the entire southbound side of the Interstate, while the inevitable rubbernecking slows traffic on the northbound side to little more than the speed of a brisk walk."
ref: 2004, Robert G. Ferrell, Tangent: A Novel, →ISBN, page 131:
glosses: The act of slowing down whilst driving a vehicle, in order to see the scene of an accident.
examples: The children had never been in such a large museum and their rubbernecking was rather amusing.
glosses: Generally, any act of observation in a manner considered unduly overt or otherwise unseemly.
rubbernecking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹʊbɚˌnɛkɪŋ/
Etymology: From rubber + neck + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: "Kids all up and down the Triboro corridors are staring, I can sense it. Why are they rubbernecking, what are they staring at?"
ref: 2006, Jack Myers, Row House Blues, →ISBN, page 339:
glosses: present participle and gerund of rubberneck
Related terms: gapers' block
gawkers' block
Zouave
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /zuːˈɑːv/
ipa: /zwɑːv/
ipa: /zuˈɑv/
ipa: /zwɑv/
enpr: zo͞o-ävʹ
enpr: zwäv
rhymes: -ɑːv
Forms: form: Zouaves
Etymology: From French, from Arabic زَوَاوِيّ (zawāwiyy), used to refer to a Kabyle soldier, especially of the Igawawen people.
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: One of a body of soldiers in the French service, originally Kabyle, but now composed of Frenchmen who wear the Kabyle dress.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: One of a body of soldiers who adopt the dress and drill of the Zouaves in French service, as was done by a number of volunteer regiments in the army of the United States in the Civil War (1861–65).
freegan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɹiːɡən/
Forms: form: freegans
Etymology: Blend of free + vegan.
Senses: glosses: A person who salvages and consumes food that has been discarded, especially one who wishes to protect the environment and challenge consumerism by means of waste reduction.
Synonyms: opportunivore
Derived terms: freeganism
naiad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈneɪæd/
ipa: /ˈneɪəd/
ipa: /ˈnaɪæd/
ipa: /ˈnaɪəd/
Forms: form: naiads
form: naiades
Etymology: From Latin Nāïas, from Ancient Greek Νᾱϊάς (Nāïás, “naiad”), from νάω (náō, “to flow”).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A female deity (nymph) associated with water, especially a spring, stream, or other fresh water.
topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: The aquatic larva (nymph) of a dragonfly or damselfly.
glosses: Any of various aquatic plants of the genus Najas.
Synonyms: topics: mythology
mysticism
philosophy
human-sciences
sciences
word: river god
sense: aquatic larva
word: instar
sense: aquatic larva
word: larva
sense: aquatic larva
word: nymph
sense: aquatic plant
word: water nymph
Related terms: dryad
Nereid
Zoroastrism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Dated form of Zoroastrianism.
zorilla
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɪlə
Forms: form: zorillas
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of zorille.
zoril
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zorils
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of zorille.
zope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zopes
Senses: examples: text: The absolute fecundity of zopes on first maturing (at the age of 5 years) was less than that of those spawning for the second time.[…]On comparison of the fecundity of zopes of the same size and different age the data obtained proved contradictory to some extent.
ref: 1969, Problems of Ichthyology, American Fisheries Society, pages 390–391:
text: Before catching, more than half zopes, sandres and perches feed actively.
ref: 1974, B.S. Kuzin, editor, Biological and Hydrological Factors of Local Movements of Fish in Reservoirs, New Delhi: Amerind Publishing Co., page 300:
glosses: A fish of species Ballerus ballerus (syn. Abramis ballerus) native to Eurasia.
Synonyms: blue bream
zoozoo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈzuː.zu/
rhymes: -uːzu
Forms: form: zoozoos
Etymology: Perhaps imitative.
Senses: glosses: The wood pigeon.
zoötomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of zootomy.
zoötomist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zoötomists
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of zootomist.
zoöspore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zoöspores
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of zoospore.
zoösporangium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zoösporangia
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of zoosporangium.
zoösperm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zoösperms
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of zoosperm.
off-Broadway
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: off-Broadways
Etymology: From off- + Broadway.
Senses: glosses: In the New York City area, a small theater with fewer than 300 seats, or a production in such a theater, usually away from the Broadway theater district, which operates under special rules from the theatrical unions and permits mounting productions at a much lower cost.
Derived terms: off-off-Broadway
off-off-off-Broadway
off-Broadway
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From off- + Broadway.
Senses: examples: text: Little Shop of Horrors is probably the most famous of the off-Broadway productions.
glosses: Of or pertaining to an off-Broadway theater, or a production mounted in one.
zoopsychology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zoöpsychology
Etymology: From zoo- + psychology.
Senses: glosses: The study of psychology in animals.
zoöpraxiscope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zoöpraxiscopes
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of zoopraxiscope.
zoöphytology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Archaic spelling of zoophytology.
zoöphyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zoöphytes
Etymology: From zoö- + -phyte.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of zoophyte.
zoöphorous
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zoöphorouses
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of zoophorous.
zoöphite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zoöphites
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of zoophyte.
zoöpathology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of zoopathology.
zoonule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zoonules
form: zoönule
Etymology: From zoon + -ule.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A zoonite.
zoönomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of zoonomy.
zoönite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zoönites
Etymology: From zoön + -ite.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Alternative spelling of zoonite.
zoön
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zoa
form: zoöns
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Alternative spelling of zoon.
zoömorphism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zoömorphisms
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of zoomorphism.
NTIDS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: NTIDSes
Etymology: named by the first inventor, R.Nutt in 1968, formerly named "Digital Time Intervall Meter"
Senses: topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Initialism of Nutt time-interval digitizer.
Related terms: TDC
zoömelanin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: qualifier: physiological chemistry
glosses: Alternative spelling of zoomelanin.
zoölogist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zoölogists
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of zoologist.
zoologer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zoologers
form: zoöloger
Etymology: From zoo- + -loger.
Senses: glosses: a zoologist
zoölatry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From zoö- + -latry.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of zoolatry.
zooid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈzəʊɔɪd/
ipa: /ˈzuːɔɪd/
Forms: form: zooids
form: zoöid
Etymology: From zoo- + -oid. Compare Ancient Greek ζῴδιον (zōídion, “animal”).
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: An organic body or cell having locomotion, as a spermatic cell or spermatozoid.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: An animal in one of its inferior or early stages of development, as one of the intermediate forms in alternate generation.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: One of the individual animals in a composite group, as of Anthozoa, Hydrozoa, and Bryozoa; — sometimes restricted to those individuals in which the mouth and digestive organs are not developed.
Derived terms: autozooid
macrozooid
microzooid
polyzooid
zooid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈzəʊɔɪd/
ipa: /ˈzuːɔɪd/
Forms: form: more zooid
form: most zooid
form: zoöid
Etymology: From zoo- + -oid. Compare Ancient Greek ζῴδιον (zōídion, “animal”).
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Relating to, or resembling, an animal.
zoögraphy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zoögraphies
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of zoography.
zoographist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zoographists
form: zoögraphist
Etymology: From zoography + -ist.
Senses: glosses: zoographer
zoögrapher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zoögraphers
Etymology: From zoögraphy + -er.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of zoographer.
zoogloea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌzəʊ.əˈɡliː.ə/
ipa: /ˌzoʊ.əˈɡli.ə/
rhymes: -iːə
Forms: form: zoogloeas
form: zoogloeae
form: zoöglœa
form: zooglea
Etymology: From zoo- + Ancient Greek γλοία (gloía).
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A colony or mass of bacteria embedded in a viscous gelatinous substance, characteristic of a transitory stage through which rapidly multiplying bacteria pass in the course of their evolution.
zoögeography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zoögeographies
Etymology: From zoö- + geography.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Alternative spelling of zoogeography.
zoogeny
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zoögeny
Etymology: From zoo- + -geny.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Synonym of zoogenesis.
synonyms: word: zoogenesis
zoogamy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /zəʊˈɒɡəmi/
/zuːˈɒɡəmi/
Forms: form: zoögamy
Etymology: From zoo- + -gamy.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: The sexual reproduction of animals.
glosses: zoophily (pollination by animals)
Derived terms: zoogamous
zooerythrine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Alternative spelling of zooerythrin.
zoœcium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zoœcia
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of zooecium.
zoödendrium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zoödendria
Senses: glosses: Archaic spelling of zoodendrium.