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Friday, January 18, 2008

Zweig, Arnold - The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition

Arnold Zweig , 1887-1968, German novelist and dramatist. A Zionist, he was denationalized under National Socialism and went to Palestine. Th...

Zweig, Stefan - The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition

Stefan Zweig , 1881-1942, Austrian biographer, poet, and novelist. Born in Vienna of a well-to-do Jewish family, he was part of the humanita...

zwetschgenwasser - A Dictionary of Food and Nutrition

zwetschgenwasser (zwetschenwasser) See quetsch.

Zwickau - The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition

Zwickau , city (1994 pop. 107,988), Saxony, E central Germany, on the Mulde River. It is an industrial city and until the late 1970s was the...

Zwicky, Fritz - The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition

Fritz Zwicky , 1898-1974, Swiss-American astrophysicist, b. Bulgaria, educated at Zürich. Associated with the California Institute of Techno...

zwieback - The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English

zwieback / swbak; zw-; sw-; zw-/ • n. a rusk or cracker made by baking a small loaf and then toasting slices until they are crisp.

zwieback - The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology

zwieback rusk. XIX. — G., tr. It. biscotto ‘twice-baked’ (see BISCUIT).

zwieback - A Dictionary of Food and Nutrition

zwieback German name for twice-baked bread or rusk. Ordinary dough plus eggs and butter, baked, sliced, baked again to a rusk, and sometimes...

Zwinger - Britannica Concise Encyclopedia

Rococo-style building complex (1709–32), on the southern bank of the Elbe in Dresden, Germany, designed by Matthäus Daniel Pöppelmann (1662–...

Zwingli, Huldreich - The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition

Zwingli received a thorough classical education in Basel, Bern, and Vienna, and was considerably influenced by the humanist precepts of Eras...

Zwingli, Ulrich - World Encyclopedia

Zwingli, Ulrich (1484–1531) Swiss Protestant theologian and reformer. Zwingli was ordained as a Roman Catholic priest in 1506, but his studi...

Zwingli, Ulrich - A Dictionary of World History

Zwingli, Ulrich (1484–1531) Swiss Protestant reformer, the principal figure of the Swiss Reformation. He was minister of Zurich from 1518, w...

Zwinglian - The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology

Zwinglian pert. to (a follower of) Ulrich Zwingli (1484–1531). Swiss religious reformer. XVI. See -IAN.

zwitterion - A Dictionary of Zoology

zwitterion A dipolar ion (i.e. one with both negative and positive charges and therefore no net charge). Amino acids in solution at neutral ...

Zwolle - The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition

Zwolle , city (1994 pop. 99,139), capital of Overijssel prov., N central Netherlands, on the Zwartewater River. It is an administrative, tra...

Zworykin, Vladimir Kosma - The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition

Vladimir Kosma Zworykin , 1889-1982, American physicist, b. Russia, educated in Russia, at the Collège de France, and at the Univ. of Pittsb...

Zworykin, Vladimir Kosma - World Encyclopedia

Zworykin, Vladimir Kosma (1889–1982) US physicist and inventor, b. Russia. A pioneer of television, in 1929 Zworykin joined the Radio Corpor...

zydeco - The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition

zydeco , American musical form originating among the African-American Creoles of Louisiana. Drawing on elements of traditional Cajun music a...

zydeco - Britannica Concise Encyclopedia

Form of dance music from southwestern Louisiana, U.S., with roots in French, African American, and Afro-Caribbean styles. Similar to the mus...

Zygaenidae - A Dictionary of Zoology

Zygaenidae (burnets, foresters; subclass Pterygota, order Lepidoptera) Family of small moths, which are generally brightly coloured, slow-fl...

zygapophyses - A Dictionary of Zoology

zygapophyses See VERTEBRA.

Zygmund, Antoni - The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition

Antoni Zygmund , 1900-1992, Polish-American mathematician, b. Warsaw, Ph.D. Univ. of Warsaw, 1923. In 1940 he escaped from German-controlled...

zygo- - The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology

zygo- repr. comb. form of Gr. zugón YOKE.

zygodactylous - A Dictionary of Zoology

zygodactylous In birds, applied to feet in which two toes point forwards, and two to the rear. The condition is found e.g. in Cuculidae, Pic...

zygoma - A Dictionary of Zoology

zygoma See ZYGOMATIC ARCH.

zygoma - The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology

zygoma (anat.) bony arch on each side of the skull. XVII. — Gr. zúgōma, f. zugón YOKE.

zygomatic arch - A Dictionary of Zoology

zygomatic arch (zygoma) The bone at the side of the skull which forms an arch from beneath the orbit to a position toward the back of the he...

zygomatic bone - A Dictionary of Zoology

zygomatic bone See JUGAL BONE.

zygomatic bone - The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English

zygomatic bone • n. Anat. the bone that forms the prominent part of the cheek and the outer side of the eye socket.

zygomorphic - A Dictionary of Zoology

zygomorphic (irregular) Bilaterally symmetrical, and therefore divisible into equal halves in only one plane.

Zygomycota - The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition

Zygomycota , a phylum of the kingdom Fungi . Author not available, ZYGOMYCOTA., The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition 2007

Zygoptera - A Dictionary of Zoology

Zygoptera (damselflies; subclass Pterygota, order Odonata) Cosmopolitan suborder of dragonflies, comprising insects with slender bodies, and...

Zygosaccharomyces - A Dictionary of Food and Nutrition

Zygosaccharomyces Yeasts that grow in high concentrations of sugar (osmophilic) that cause spoilage of honey, jams, and syrups.

zygote - A Dictionary of Zoology

zygote The fertilized ovum of an animal, formed from the fusion of male and female gametes when, under normal circumstances, the diploid chr...

zygote - A Dictionary of Psychology

zygote n. A fertilized ovum or egg. See also blastocyst, embryo, foetus, morula.[From Greek zygotos yoked, from zygon a yoke]

zygote - World Encyclopedia

zygote In sexual reproduction, a cell formed by fusion of a male and a female gamete. It contains a diploid (two sets) number of chromosomes...

zygote - The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition

zygote see reproduction . Author not available, ZYGOTE., The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition 2007

zygote - The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English

zygote / zgt/ • n. Biol. a diploid cell resulting from the fusion of two haploid gametes; a fertilized ovum. DERIVATIVES: zygotic / zgtik/ a...

zygotene - A Dictionary of Zoology

zygotene See MEIOSIS; PROPHASE.

zymase - A Dictionary of Food and Nutrition

zymase The mixture of enzymes in yeast which is responsible for fermentation.

zymo- - The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology

zymo-, before a vowel zym-, comb. form of Gr. zū́mē leaven, in techn. terms (gen.) fermentation XIX. So zymosis XIX. — Gr. zū́mōsis. zymotic...

zymogen - A Dictionary of Zoology

zymogen (pro-enzyme) The inactive precursor of an enzyme, subsequently activated by specific partial proteolysis.

zymogen - Britannica Concise Encyclopedia

[or proenzyme] Any of a class of proteins that are secreted by cells and are inactive precursors of enzymes. Transformation into active enzy...

zymogen granule - A Dictionary of Zoology

zymogen granule One of the dense, membrane-bound bodies containing zymogen that is derived from the Golgi body of cells. Zymogen granules oc...

zymogenous - A Dictionary of Zoology

zymogenous Applied to organisms whose presence in a given habitat is transient; the numbers of such organisms fluctuate greatly, e.g. in res...

zymogens - A Dictionary of Food and Nutrition

zymogens The inactive form in which some enzymes, especially the protein digestive enzymes, are secreted, being activated after secretion. A...

zymurgy - The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology

zymurgy practice of fermentation. XIX. f. Gr. zū́mē leaven + -urgy (rel. to WORK) as in metallurgy.

Thursday, January 17, 2008

Zyprexa - A Dictionary of Psychology

Zyprexa n. A proprietary name for the atypical antipsychotic drug olanzapine. [Trademark]

Zyrians - The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition

Zyrians see Komi .

Zyuganov, Gennady - World Encyclopedia

Zyuganov, Gennady (1944– ) Russian politician. During the 1970s and 1980s, Zyuganov moved up the Soviet Communist Party hierarchy, taking po...

Zyuganov, Gennady - The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition

Gennady Zyuganov , 1944-, Russian politician, b. Mymrino. The son and grandson of country schoolteachers, he grew up in the tiny farming vil...

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