These 2 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Zygospore, Zymotic Diseases.
in botany, the term applied by Huxley to the product of conjugation of spores when it is impossible to say which represent the male and which the female element, there being no morphological difference between the modified hyphle which enter into relation with one another.
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a name applied to epidemic and endemic contagious diseases, because they are supposed to be produced by some morbific principle which acts on the human system like a ferment. This morbific principle or poison gets into the blood in minute particles or germs, and there increases or multiplies, the disease lasting till the poison has become forked out, or has been destroyed. The chief of these diseases are measles, scarlet fever, smallpox, typhus, typhiod, diphtheria, whooping cough, croup and erysipelas.
Only in Collier's New Encyclopedia