Academy means: A garden or grove near Athens (so named from the hero Academus), where Plato and his followers held their philosophical conferences; hence, the school of philosophy of which Plato was head.
Academy means: An institution for the study of higher learning; a college or a university. Popularly, a school, or seminary of learning, holding a rank between a college and a common school.
Academy means: A place of training; a school.
Academy means: A society of learned men united for the advancement of the arts and sciences, and literature, or some particular art or science; as, the French Academy; the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; academies of literature and philology.
Academy means: A school or place of training in which some special art is taught; as, the military academy at West Point; a riding academy; the Academy of Music.
Achlamydate means: Not possessing a mantle; -- said of certain gastropods.
Achlamydeous means: Naked; having no floral envelope, neither calyx nor corolla.
Adenotomy means: Dissection of, or incision into, a gland or glands.
Adesmy means: The division or defective coherence of an organ that is usually entire.
Adynamy means: Adynamia.
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.
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