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   Zauschneria californica
         n 1: shrublet of southwestern United States to Mexico having
               brilliant scarlet flowers [syn: {California fuchsia},
               {humming bird's trumpet}, {Epilobium canum canum},
               {Zauschneria californica}]

English Dictionary: Zauschneria californica by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
zygomorphic
adj
  1. capable of division into symmetrical halves by only one longitudinal plane passing through the axis
    Synonym(s): zygomorphic, bilaterally symmetrical, zygomorphous
    Antonym(s): actinomorphic, actinomorphous
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
zygomorphous
adj
  1. capable of division into symmetrical halves by only one longitudinal plane passing through the axis
    Synonym(s): zygomorphic, bilaterally symmetrical, zygomorphous
    Antonym(s): actinomorphic, actinomorphous
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   d8Zauschneria \[d8]Zau*schne"ri*a\, n. [NL., named for M.
      Zauschner, a Bohemian botanist.] (Bot.)
      A genus of flowering plants. {Zauschneria Californica} is a
      suffrutescent perennial, with showy red flowers much
      resembling those of the garden fuchsia.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Zygomorphic \Zyg`o*mor"phic\, Zygomorphous \Zyg`o*mor"phous\, a.
      [Gr. [?] a yoke + [?] form.] (Biol.)
      Symmetrical bilaterally; -- said of organisms, or parts of
      organisms, capable of division into two symmetrical halves
      only in a single plane.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Zygomorphic \Zyg`o*mor"phic\, Zygomorphous \Zyg`o*mor"phous\, a.
      [Gr. [?] a yoke + [?] form.] (Biol.)
      Symmetrical bilaterally; -- said of organisms, or parts of
      organisms, capable of division into two symmetrical halves
      only in a single plane.

From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
   zigamorph /zig'*-morf/ n.   1. Hex FF (11111111) when used as a
   delimiter or {fence} character.   Usage: primarily at IBM shops.   2.
   [proposed] n. The Unicode non-character U+FFFF (1111111111111111), a
   character code which is not assigned to any character, and so is
   usable as end-of-string.   (Unicode is a 16-bit character code
   intended to cover all of the world's writing systems, including
   Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, Chinese, hiragana, katakana, Devanagari,
   Thai, Laotian and many other scripts - support for {elvish} is
   planned for a future release).
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   zigamorph
  
      /zig'*-morf/ 1. {Hex} FF (11111111) when used as a {delimiter}
      or {fence} character.   Usage: primarily at {IBM} shops.
  
      2. [proposed] The {Unicode} non-character +UFFFF
      (1111111111111111), a character code which is not assigned to
      any character, and so is usable as end-of-string.
  
      [{Jargon File}]
  
  
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