Category: Z

The general intellectual and cultural climate of taste characteristic of an era. The German word for the trends of thought and feeling characteristic of a culture at a particular time. The spirit of the people, or trend of thought at a particular time.  

A general term applied in Ethiopia, Somalia, Egypt, Sudan, Iran and other North African and middle eastern societies to the experience of spirits possessing an individual. Persons may experience dissociative episodes, show apathy and social withdrawal, or develop a long-term relationship with the possessing spirit. Such behavior is not considered to be pathological in these…

A nonbenzodiazepine hypnotic medication used in the short-term treatment of insomnia. Marketed under the brand name sonata. A drug used for the short-term treatment of insomnia. Zaleplon (Sonata) is a central nervous system depressant that causes drowsiness. Zaleplon works rapidly and should be taken right before going to bed. It works for a only short…

With bilateral symmetry, i.e. either side of an (imaginary) central line being a mirror image of the other.  

With bilateral symmetry, i.e. either side of an (imaginary) central line being a mirror image of the other. Bilaterally symmetrical, often this is described as ‘abnormal’, especially with reference to corollas.  

Adapted for pollination by animals.  

Distribution by animal vector, either external on the coat or legs (ectozoochory) or internal, through the gut (endozoochory).  

(In pollen) grain with apertures in equatorial zone: may be zonocolpate, zonocolporate, zono- (or zona-)sulcate or zonoporate.  

The sequence of vegetation types in three dimensions (not in time); for example, bands of vegetation at different altitudes of a mountain in response to differences in temperature and rainfall, or in a mangrove forest owing to various salinity levels.