n.
A genus of prickly shrubs or small trees, the bark and rots of which are of a deep yellow color; prickly ash.
n.
A small three-masted vessel, with projecting bow stern and convex decks, used in the Mediterranean for transporting merchandise, etc. It carries large square sails, or both. Xebecs were formerly armed and used by corsairs.
n.
An Arctic fork-tailed gull (Xema Sabinii).
n.
A Spartan institution which prohibited strangers from residing in Sparta without permission, its object probably being to preserve the national simplicity of manners.
n.
A present given to a guest or stranger, or to a foreign ambassador.
n.
A house for the reception of strangers.
n.
In the Middle Ages, a room in a monastery for the reception and entertainment of strangers and pilgrims, and for the relief of paupers. [Called also Xenodocheion.]
n.
Reception of strangers; hospitality.
n.
Same as Heterogenesis.
n.
The fancied production of an organism of one kind by an organism of another.
a.
Of or pertaining to xenogenesis; as, the xenogenetic origin of microzymes.
n.
A mania for, or an inordinate attachment to, foreign customs, institutions, manners, fashions, etc.
n. pl.
A suborder of soft-rayed fresh-water fishes of which the blackfish of Alaska (Dallia pectoralis) is the type.
n. pl.
A suborder of fishes including Gobiesox and allied genera. These fishes have soft-rayed fins, and a ventral sucker supported in front by the pectoral fins. They are destitute of scales.
n.
A native phosphate of yttrium occurring in yellowish-brown tetragonal crystals.
n.
The radical characteristic of xenylic compounds.
a.
Pertaining to, derived from, designating, certain amido compounds obtained by reducing certain nitro derivatives of diphenyl.
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