(n.) The child of a mulatto and a negro; also, the child of an Indian and a negro; colloquially or humorously, a negro; a sambo.

(n.) A public shed, or portico, for travelers, worshipers, etc.

(n.) See Xebec.

(n.) Either one of two species of South African wild horses remarkable for having the body white or yellowish white, and conspicuously marked with dark brown or brackish bands.

(n.) A large noxious fly of Abyssinia, which like the tsetse fly, is destructive to cattle.

(n.) The blind mole rat (Spalax typhlus), native of Eastern Europe and Asia. Its eyes and ears are rudimentary, and its fur is soft and brownish, more or less tinged with gray. It constructs extensive burrows.

(n.) The fennec.

(pl. ) of Zero

(n.) Alt. of Zibeth

(n.) Curd produced from milk by adding acetic acid, after rennet has ceased to cause coagulation.

(a.) See Zincky.

(n.) The suslik.

(n.) Alt. of Zoccolo

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

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

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

(a.) Wearing a zone, or girdle.

(a.) Having zones, or concentric bands; striped.

(a.) Zonate.

(a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, an animal.

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

(n.) An animal in one of its inferior stages of development, as one of the intermediate forms in alternate generation.

(n.) One of the individual animals in a composite group, as of Anthozoa, Hydroidea, and Bryozoa; -- sometimes restricted to those individuals in which the mouth and digestive organs are not developed.

(n.) Same as Zorilla.

(a.) Pertaining to, or produced by, fermentation; -- formerly, by confusion, used to designate lactic acid.