Words starting with som

Words and definitions

Soma means: The whole axial portion of an animal, including the head, neck, trunk, and tail.

Somaj means: Alt. of Samaj

Somali means: Alt. of Somal

Somal means: A Hamitic people of East Central Africa.

Somatic means: Of or pertaining to the body as a whole; corporeal; as, somatic death; somatic changes.

Somatic means: Of or pertaining to the wall of the body; somatopleuric; parietal; as, the somatic stalk of the yolk sac of an embryo.

Somatical means: Somatic.

Somatics means: The science which treats of the general properties of matter; somatology.

Somatist means: One who admits the existence of material beings only; a materialist.

Somatocyst means: A cavity in the primary nectocalyx of certain Siphonophora. See Illust. under Nectocalyx.

Words and definitions

Zythum means: A kind of ancient malt beverage; a liquor made from malt and wheat.

Zythepsary means: A brewery.

Zythem means: See Zythum.

Zymotic means: Designating, or pertaining to, a certain class of diseases. See Zymotic disease, below.

Zymotic means: Of, pertaining to, or caused by, fermentation.

Zymosis means: A zymotic disease.

Zymosis means: A fermentation; hence, an analogous process by which an infectious disease is believed to be developed.

Zymose means: Invertin.

Zymophyte means: A bacteroid ferment.

Zymosimeter means: An instrument for ascertaining the degree of fermentation occasioned by the mixture of different liquids, and the degree of heat which they acquire in fermentation.