Words starting with h

Words and definitions

Haematothermal means: Warm-blooded; homoiothermal.

Haematothorax means: Same as Hemothorax.

Haematexylin means: The coloring principle of logwood. It is obtained as a yellow crystalline substance, C16H14O6, with a sweetish taste. Formerly called also hematin.

Haematoxylon means: A genus of leguminous plants containing but a single species, the H. Campechianum or logwood tree, native in Yucatan.

Haematozoa means: of Haematozoon

Haematozoon means: A parasite inhabiting the blood

Haematozoon means: Certain species of nematodes of the genus Filaria, sometimes found in the blood of man, the horse, the dog, etc.

Haematozoon means: The trematode, Bilharzia haematobia, which infests the inhabitants of Egypt and other parts of Africa, often causing death.

Haemic means: Pertaining to the blood; hemal.

Haemin means: Same as Hemin.

Words and definitions

Zoilean means: Having the characteristic of Zoilus, a bitter, envious, unjust critic, who lived about 270 years before Christ.

Zoide means: See Meride.

Zoic means: Of or pertaining to animals, or animal life.

Zohar means: A Jewish cabalistic book attributed by tradition to Rabbi Simon ben Yochi, who lived about the end of the 1st century, a. d. Modern critics believe it to be a compilation of the 13th century.

Zoetrope means: An optical toy, in which figures made to revolve on the inside of a cylinder, and viewed through slits in its circumference, appear like a single figure passing through a series of natural motions as if animated or mechanically moved.

Zoea means: A peculiar larval stage of certain decapod Crustacea, especially of crabs and certain Anomura.

Zodiacal means: Of or pertaining to the zodiac; situated within the zodiac; as, the zodiacal planets.

Zodiac means: A girdle; a belt.

Zodiac means: A figure representing the signs, symbols, and constellations of the zodiac.

Zodiac means: An imaginary belt in the heavens, 16¡ or 18¡ broad, in the middle of which is the ecliptic, or sun's path. It comprises the twelve constellations, which one constituted, and from which were named, the twelve signs of the zodiac.