zein

[Mod. Lat. ze(a); -in.] Chem.: A nitrogenous substance obtained from maize flour. IMG:content-1117.png:[blocks in formation] Bot .: Planer a richard i , a North American tree, seventy or eighty feet high, the diameter of the trunk four feet. Leaves like those of the elm, flowers small greenish-yellow, smelling like elder flowers; fruit small, with two seeds. *zel-ot-ist, s . [ZEALOT IST.] *zěl-oŭ-sie, s. [Gr. zeloō = to emulate, to be jealous of.] Jealousy. "The zelousie and the eagre feersenes of Olimpias."Udall: Apoph. of Erasmus , p. 200.