Vocabulary : Azedarach to Azonic

Azedarach : A handsome Asiatic tree (Melia azedarach), common in the southern United States; -- called also, Pride of India, Pride of China, and Bead tree. ;; The bark of the roots of the azedarach, used as a cathartic and emetic.
Azimuth : The quadrant of an azimuth circle. ;; An arc of the horizon intercepted between the meridian of the place and a vertical circle passing through the center of any object; as, the azimuth of a star; the azimuth or bearing of a line surveying.
Azimuthal : Of or pertaining to the azimuth; in a horizontal circle.
Azo- : A combining form of azote ;; Applied loosely to compounds having nitrogen variously combined, as in cyanides, nitrates, etc. ;; Now especially applied to compounds containing a two atom nitrogen group uniting two hydrocarbon radicals, as in azobenzene, azobenzoic, etc. These compounds furnish many artificial dyes. See Diazo-.
Azobenzene : A substance (C6H5.N2.C6H5) derived from nitrobenzene, forming orange red crystals which are easily fusible.

Azogue : Lit.: Quicksilver ;; Silver ores suitable for treatment by amalgamation with mercury.
Azoic : Destitute of any vestige of organic life, or at least of animal life; anterior to the existence of animal life; formed when there was no animal life on the globe; as, the azoic. rocks.
Azole : Any of a large class of compounds characterized by a five-membered ring which contains an atom of nitrogen and at least one other noncarbon atom (nitrogen, oxygen, sulphur). The prefixes furo-, thio, and pyrro- are used to distinguish three subclasses of azoles, which may be regarded as derived respectively from furfuran, thiophene, and pyrrol by replacement of the CH group by nitrogen; as, furo-monazole. Names exactly analogous to those for the azines are also used; as, oxazole, diazole, etc.
Azoleic : Pertaining to an acid produced by treating oleic with nitric acid.
Azonic : Confined to no zone or region; not local.

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