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Zorile Dorsa
Zorile Dorsa is a 1,041-km-long ridge belt (dorsum) on Venus at 39.9°N, 338.4°E in the Sedna Planitia quadrangle V-19, IAU-named in 1985 for the Moldavian dawn goddess.
Zorin Finance
Zorin Finance is a UK-based alternative property lender founded by Luke Townsend in 2011, providing stretched senior development loans to SME housebuilders and lending across Europe.
Zork
Zork (1977) is the classic MIT-created text adventure by Anderson, Blank, Daniels, and Lebling, sold as the Infocom trilogy from 1980 on the Z-Machine virtual machine; relicensed under MIT by Microsoft in November 2025.
Zorn's lemma
Zorn's lemma, also known as the Kuratowski–Zorn lemma, is a set-theoretic principle equivalent to the axiom of choice, used to prove that every vector space has a basis.
Zornitza Stark
Zornitza Stark is an Australian clinical geneticist and clinician-researcher at the Murdoch Children's Research Institute in Melbourne, known for rare disease genomics and the Talos reanalysis tool.
Zoroark (ゾロアーク)
Zoroark (ゾロアーク), the Illusion Fox Pokémon, is a Dark-type Pokémon evolving from Zorua, No. 571, with the signature Ability Illusion disguising it as the last party Pokémon; a Normal/Ghost Hisuian form debuted in Pokémon Legends: Arceus.
Zoroaster (Zaraθuštra)
Zoroaster, known as Zarathushtra or Zartosht, was an ancient Iranian prophet of eastern Iran, probably living around 1000 BCE, who founded Zoroastrianism and taught worship of Ahura Mazdā.
Zoroastrian cosmology
Zoroastrian cosmology is the Zoroastrian account of a cosmos created by Ahura Mazda, contested by the evil spirit Angra Mainyu, and ending in a final renovation.
Zoroastrian literature
Zoroastrian literature is the body of religious writing in three languages and eras: the Avesta, the Middle Persian Pahlavi books of the 9th and 10th centuries, and New Persian works.
Zoroastrianism
Zoroastrianism, also called the Zoroastrian religion, is the ancient Iranian religion founded by the prophet Zarathustra, centered on Ahura Mazdā and each person's choice between good and evil.
Zorro
Zorro, Spanish for fox, is a fictional masked vigilante created in 1919 by Johnston McCulley in The Curse of Capistrano, the alter ego of Don Diego de la Vega, defender of oppressed Spanish California and progenitor of Batman and other superheroes.
Zorro (1957 TV series)
Zorro (1957 TV series): Walt Disney Productions' ABC action-adventure show starring Guy Williams as Don Diego de la Vega/Zorro, 78 episodes, 1957–1959, ended by a Disney–ABC dispute, later colorized and syndicated worldwide.
Zorro (2024 Spanish TV series)
Zorro (2024 Spanish TV series), also simply Zorro, is a Secuoya Studios action-adventure show on Prime Video starring Miguel Bernardeau as Diego de la Vega, premiering January 19, 2024; distinct from the French Jean Dujardin Paramount+ series of the same year.
Zorro (French TV series)
Zorro (French TV series) is a French-language comedy-drama television series created by Benjamin Charbit and Noé Debré, starring Jean Dujardin as Don Diego de la Vega.
Zorro oil field
The Zorro oil field is a producing reservoir area and gas treatment complex within the Cerro Dragón concession in Chubut Province, Argentina, operated by Pan American Energy.
Zorro Ranch
Zorro Ranch: Jeffrey Epstein's estate near Stanley, New Mexico, bought in 1993 from Governor Bruce King via the Zorro Trust, sold in 2023 to Don Huffines' family, now under renewed New Mexico investigation.
Zorya
Zorya (Zarya, Zaria, Zorza) is a Slavic folklore personification of dawn and the morning and evening stars, usually two goddesses, Utrennyaya and Vechernyaya, guarding Simargl and serving Dazhbog; the third sister is Gaiman's invention.
Zosia Mamet
Zosia Mamet (Zosia Russell Mamet), American actress born 1988 in Randolph, Vermont, daughter of David Mamet and Lindsay Crouse; known for Shoshanna on Girls, Annie on The Flight Attendant, Joyce on Mad Men, and her 2025 essay collection.
Zosima
Zosima is a small genus of perennial herbs in the carrot family, Apiaceae, established in 1814 and native from the eastern Mediterranean to Xinjiang and western India.
Zosima of Solovki
Zosima of Solovki (Зосима Соловецкий) was a Russian Orthodox saint who founded the Solovetsky Monastery with the monk German around 1436 and served as its hegumen until his death in 1478.
Zosimus (Ζώσιμος) (historian)
Zosimus (Ζώσιμος), also Zosimos, early Byzantine pagan historian and author of the six-book New History (Historia Nova) on Rome's decline from Augustus to 410, written after 498, a key source for the third and fourth centuries.
Zoskales
Zoskales, also Latinized Zoscales, is a ruler of the Axumites and their Red Sea coast in the mid-1st century AD, named in the Periplus of the Erythraean Sea.
Zostavax
Zostavax (zoster vaccine live) was Merck's live attenuated shingles vaccine, FDA licensed in 2006 for adults 50 and older, about 51% effective at 60+, replaced by Shingrix and discontinued in the US by November 18, 2020.
Zoster vaccine
Zoster vaccine prevents shingles from reactivated varicella-zoster virus. Shingrix (RZV, recombinant glycoprotein E plus AS01_B adjuvant, GSK) replaced the live Zostavax, giving 97% efficacy in adults 50+ and 2-dose CDC recommendations.
Zoster vaccine recombinant, adjuvanted
Zoster vaccine recombinant, adjuvanted (Shingrix, RZV) is GSK's two-dose, non-live shingles vaccine of VZV glycoprotein E plus AS01B adjuvant, FDA-approved 2017, over 90% effective against shingles and postherpetic neuralgia in adults 50 and older.
Zoster without complications
Zoster without complications (ICD-11 1E91.0) is uncomplicated shingles: reactivated VZV causing a painful single-dermatome vesicular rash that heals in 2 to 4 weeks without eye, nervous-system, disseminated, or postherpetic-neuralgia involvement.
Zostera
Zostera (eelgrass) is a genus of about 13 accepted species of submerged marine flowering plants in Zosteraceae, forming temperate seagrass meadows worldwide; Z. marina is the most widespread and most restored species.
Zostera marina
Zostera marina (eelgrass) is the most widely distributed marine flowering plant, a seagrass of temperate Northern Hemisphere coasts forming meadows that provide fish habitat, shoreline stabilization, and carbon sequestration.
Zosteropidae
Zosteropidae (white-eyes), family of small passerine birds with a white eye-ring, sister to babblers; about 141 species in 13 genera, dominated by the rapidly radiating genus Zosterops, the "great speciator" of Old World tropics and islands.
Zosterops
Zosterops, the typical white-eyes (Vigors & Horsfield, 1827), is a genus of about 100 small passerine birds of the family Zosteropidae across the Old World, famed as a 'great speciator' with diversification rates of 1.95–2.63 species per million years and three main clades centered in Indo-Africa, Asia, and Australasia.