Zoomorphism Zoomorphism, from Greek language ???? zoon, meaning animal, and µ??f?, morphe, meaning shape or form, refers to the representation of animal forms in ornaments, or to the representation of gods in the form, or with attributes, of non-human animals, and also to the transformation of humans into beasts.
	Zoophilia Zoophilia, from the Greek language ??? and f???a , is a paraphilia, defined as an affinity or sexual attraction by a human to a animal. Such individuals are called zoophiles. The more recent terms zoosexual and zoosexuality describe the full spectrum of human/animal sexual orientation.
	Zoot suit A zoot suit is a style of clothing popularized by African Americans, Filipino Americans, and Mexican Americans in the late 1930s and 1940s. It has wide-legged, tight-cuffed, or "pegged," trousers; and a long coat with wide Jacket_lapel, and wide, padded shoulders.
	Zori Zori are thonged Japanese sandals made of rice straw or other plant fibers, lacquered wood, orincreasinglysynthetic materials. Zori are quite similar to flip-flops, which first appeared in the United States sometime around World War II as rubber imitations of the wooden thong sandals long worn in Japan.
	Zoroaster Zarathustra , sometimes referred to in English as Zoroaster was an ancient Iranian peoples prophet and the founder of Zoroastrianism, which was the national religion of the Sassanian Empire of Persian Empire and played an important role in the earlier Achaemenidae and Parthian regimes.
	Zoroastrianism Zoroastrianism is the religion and philosophy based on the teachings ascribed to the prophet Zoroaster . Mazdaism is the religion that acknowledges the divine authority of Ahura Mazda, proclaimed by Zoroaster to be the one uncreated Creator of all . As demonstrated by Zoroastrian creed and articles of faith, the two terms are effectively synonymous.
	Zosteraceae Zosteraceae is the botanical name of a family of flowering plants. It has long been recognized as such by taxonomists. The APG II system, of 2003, also recognizes this family and places it in the order Alismatales, in the clade monocots. The family consists of two or three genera totalling about a dozen species, of marine plants.
	Zoysia Zoysia is a genus of eight species of creeping grasses native to southeastern Asia, China and Japan. These species, commonly called zoysia or zoysiagrass, are found in coastal areas or grasslands. The genus is named after the Austrian botanist Karl von Zois.
	Zucchini Zucchini or courgette is a small summer marrow or Squash, also commonly called Italian squash. Its Latin name is Cucurbita pepo. It can either be yellow or green and generally has a similar shape to a ridged cucumber, though a few cultivars are available that produce round or bottle-shaped fruit.
	Zuider Zee The Zuider Zee was a shallow inlet of the North Sea in the northwest of the Netherlands, extending about 100 km inland and at most 50 km wide, with an overall depth of about 4 to 5 meters and a coastline of about 300 km. It covered 5,000 square km . Its name means "southern sea" in Dutch, indicating that the origin of the name can be found in Friesland to the north of the Zuiderzee .
	Zulu The Zulu are an African ethnic group of about 11 million people who live mainly in the province of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Small numbers also live in Zimbabwe, Zambia, and Mozambique. Their language, Zulu language, is a Bantu language language; more specifically, part of the Nguni subgroup.
	Zuni The Zuni or Ashiwi are a Native Americans in the United States tribe, one of the Pueblo peoples, most of whom live in the Zuni Pueblo, New Mexico on the Zuni River, a tributary of the Little Colorado River, in western New Mexico.
	Zurvan Zurvan is the Persian people god of infinity time, space, and fate. In ancient times the deity was worshipped among other ancient Iranian peoples as well.
	Zurvanism Zurvanism is the name of a now-extinct branch of Zoroastrianism that had the divinity Zurvan Akarana as its First Principle. Zurvanism is also known as Zurvanite Zoroastrianism. In Zurvanism Zurvan Akarana is the Hypostatic object of Infinite Time and Space. The name Zurvan, like "Time", also appears in other belief systems, but in those religions are not necessarily related to the Zurvan of Zurvanism.
	Zwieback Zwieback is a kind of sweetened bread, usually fortified with eggs. It is initially baked as a loaf and then sliced and toasted forming a crisp biscuit or rusk. Its name is derived from 19th century German and is translated as twice bake. Due to its long storage life it has been a fundamental food for seafaring and the military.
	Zydeco Zydeco is a form of folk music, originated in the beginning of the 20th century among the Francophone Louisiana Creole peoples of south-west Louisiana and influenced by the music of the French-speaking Cajuns. It is heavily syncopated, usually fast-tempo, and dominated by the button or piano accordion and a form of a washboard known as a rub-board or frottoir.
	Zygomatic bone The zygomatic bone is a paired bone of the human skull. It articulates with the maxilla, the temporal bone, the sphenoid bone and the frontal bone. It forms part of the Orbit and is commonly referred to as the cheekbone. It is situated at the upper and lateral part of the face: it forms the prominence of the cheek, part of the lateral wall and floor of the orbit, and parts of the temporal and infratemporal fossae [Fig.
	Zygomycota Zygomycota, or zygote fungi, are a division of fungus. The name of the division comes from zygosporangium, resistant structures formed during sexual reproduction. There are approximately 600 species of zygomycetes known. They are mostly terrestrial in habitat, living in soil or on decaying plant or animal material.
	Zygophyllaceae The Zygophyllaceae, of about 250 species, are a family of flowering plants, also known as the bean-caper or caltrop family. According to the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group, the heterogenous family Zygophyllaceae is unplaced to order, but included in the Eurosids I as a sister to a clade composed of several orders.