Xe*nog"a*my (?), n. [Gr. xe`nos strange, foreign + &?; marriage.] (Bot.) Cross fertilization.
Xen`o*gen"e*sis (?), n. [Gr. xe`nos a stranger + E. genesis.] (Biol.) (a) Same as Heterogenesis. (b) The fancied production of an organism of one kind by an organism of another. Huxley.
Xen`o*ge*net"ic (?), a. (Biol.) Of or pertaining to xenogenesis; as, the xenogenetic origin of microzymes. Huxley.
Xen`o*ma"ni*a (?), n. [Gr. xe`nos strange + E. mania.] A mania for, or an inordinate attachment to, foreign customs, institutions, manners, fashions, etc. [R.] Saintsbury.
||Xen"o*mi (?), n. pl. [NL., from Gr. xe`nos strange.] (Zoöl.) A suborder of soft-rayed fresh-water fishes of which the blackfish of Alaska (Dallia pectoralis) is the type.
||Xe*nop`te*ryg"i*i (?), n. pl. [NL., from Gr. xe`nos strange + &?;, dim. of &?; a wing.] (Zoöl.) 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.
Xen"o*time (?), n. [Gr. &?; honoring guests or strangers; xe`nos guest, stranger + &?; honor: cf. G. xenotim.] (Min.) A native phosphate of yttrium occurring in yellowish-brown tetragonal crystals.
Xe*nu"rine (?), n. [Gr. xe`nos strange + &?; tail.] (Zoöl.) A cabassou.
Xen"yl (?), n. [Gr. xe`nos strange + -yl.] (Chem.) The radical characteristic of xenylic compounds.
Xe*nyl"ic (?), a. (Chem.) Pertaining to, derived from, designating, certain amido compounds obtained by reducing certain nitro derivatives of diphenyl.
Xer"a*phim (?), n. [Pg. xarafin, xerafin, fr. Ar. ashraf noble, the name of a gold coin.] An old money of account in Bombay, equal to three fifths of a rupee.
Xer"es (?), n. Sherry. See Sherry.
Xer"if (?), n. A shereef.
Xer"iff (?), n. [See Shereef.] A gold coin formerly current in Egypt and Turkey, of the value of about 9s. 6d., or about $2.30; -- also, in Morocco, a ducat.
||Xe`ro*der"ma (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. &?; dry + &?; skin.] (Med.) (a) Ichthyosis. (b) A skin disease characterized by the presence of numerous small pigmented spots resembling freckles, with which are subsequently mingled spots of atrophied skin.
Xe"ro*nate (?), n. (Chem.) A salt of xeronic acid.
Xe*ron"ic (?), a. [Gr. &?; dry + citraconic.] (Chem.) Pertaining to, or designating, an acid, C8H12O4, related to fumaric acid, and obtained from citraconic acid as an oily substance having a bittersweet taste; -- so called from its tendency to form its anhydride.
Xe*roph"a*gy (?), n. [L. xerophagia, Gr. &?;; &?; dry + &?; to eat.] Among the primitive Christians, the living on a diet of dry food in Lent and on other fasts.
Xe*roph"i*lous (?), a. [Gr. &?; dry + &?; to love.] (Bot.) Drought-loving; able withstand the absence or lack of moisture.
Plants which are peculiarly adapted to dry climates are termed by De Candolle xerophilous.
Goodale.
||Xe`roph*thal"mi*a (?), n. [L., fr. Gr. &?;; &?; dry + &?; the eye. See Ophthalmia.] (Med.) An abnormal dryness of the eyeball produced usually by long- continued inflammation and subsequent atrophy of the conjunctiva.
Xe`roph*thal"my (?), n. (Med.) Xerophthalmia.
||Xiph"i*as (?), n. [L., a swordfish, a sword-shaped comet, fr. Gr. xifi`as, fr. xi`fos a sword.]