Zonate A DICTIONARY OF BOTANICAL TERMS. Zymotic 



ZON ATE, marked with circular, 

 colored bauds; zoned. Ap- 

 plied to the tetraspores of 

 Florideae wheu in a single 

 row, in distiuction from a 

 cruciate or tripartite arrange- 

 ment. 



ZONE, a circular baud or stripe. 



ZONED, see Zonate. 



ZO OGAMETE, see Plano- 



GAMETE. 



ZOOGLOZ'A (pi. Zoogloe'ffi), a ge- 

 latinous colony of bacteria. 



ZOOGONIDIIJM (pi. Zdogonld'Ia), 

 a motile gonidium, usually 

 called zoospore. Restricted 

 by some to a zoospore which 

 grows iuto a plant directly, 

 without conjugation. See 

 Zoospore. 



ZO'OSPERM, see Zoospore. 



Z60SPORAN'6ifJM, a sporangium 

 enclosing zoospores. 



ZOOSPORE, a spore or gonidium 

 having the power of independ- 

 ent movement, usually by 

 means of one or more vibra- 

 tile cilia; swarm -spore. See 

 Zoogonidium. 



ZOOTHECA (obs.), see ZoSsfo- 



RANGIUM. 



ZYGOGO'NIUM, the female con- 

 jugating cell in Conjugates, 

 together with the accessory 

 cells, if any. Compare Asco- 

 gonium and Carpogonium. 



ZYGOMOR PHIC, applied to flow- 

 ers which are monosymmetri- 

 cal, as those of the pea and 

 bean. Compare Actinomor- 

 phic. Sachs extends the term 

 to such irregular flowers as are 

 capable of bisection into simi- 

 lar halves iu two directions, 

 but in which the halves pro- 

 duced by the two bisections 

 are of different shape, as in 

 Dicentra. 



ZYGOMOR PHOUS, see Zygomor- 

 phtc. 



ZYGO Sis, see Conjugation. 



ZYG OSPERM, see Zygospore. 



ZYG OSPHERE, the female con- 

 jugating cell in such zygo- 

 phytes as have a distinctiou in 

 sex. Compare Oosphere. 



ZYG OSPORE, a spore resulting 

 from conjugation. 



ZYGOTE, a general term for the 

 product of the union of two 

 gametes. 



ZYGOZO OSPORE, a motile zygo- 

 spore. 



ZYMASE, a ferment secreted by 

 certain bacteria; enzyme. 



ZYMOSIS, (1) fermentation of 

 any kind; (2) an infectious or 

 contagious disease. 



ZYMOTIC, (1) pertaining to fer- 

 mentation, or caused by organ- 

 isms capable of producing fer- 

 mentation; (2) pertaining to an 

 infectious or contagious disease. 



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