xenial /zēˈni-əl/ adjective

Of or concerning hospitality or relations with guests

xenium /zēˈni-əm/ noun (pl xēˈnia)

1. A present made to a guest or an ambassador
2. An offering, or a compulsory gift, to a ruler, the Church, etc

xenobiotic /-bī-otˈik/ adjective (biology, etc)

Denoting or relating to a substance foreign to or not rightly found in a body, biological system, etc

A xenobiotic substance

xenˈocryst /-krist/ noun (geology)

A crystal or mineral grain which has been taken in by magma during its upward flow

xenodochium /zen-ō-do-kīˈəm/ noun

(Gr docheion a receptacle) a building for the reception of strangers, eg a guest-house in a monastery

xenogamy /zen-ogˈə-mi/ noun (Gr gamos marriage; botany)

Cross-fertilization

xenogeneic /zen-ō-jen-ēˈik/ adjective

(Gr genesis birth) relating to grafted tissue derived from a species different from the recipient

xenogenˈesis noun

The (imagined) generation of something altogether and permanently unlike the parent

xenogenetˈic adjective

xenogenous /zi-nojˈi-nəs/ adjective

Due to an outside cause

xenoglossˈia noun

(Gr glōssa tongue) in psychical research, a person's knowledge of a language which he or she has never learned

xenˈograft noun (biology)

A graft from a member of a different species

xenˈolith noun

A fragment of rock of extraneous origin which has been incorporated in magma

xenomania /-māˈni-ə/ noun

(Gr maniā madness) an inordinate attachment to foreign things

xenomenia /-mēˈni-ə/ noun

(Gr mēniaia menses) vicarious menstruation, in which, in the absence of normal menstruation, bleeding occurs at regular monthly intervals from other parts of the body (eg the nose)

xenomorphic /-mörˈfik/ adjective (Gr morphē form; geology)

A textural term applied to rock minerals which do not show their own characteristic shapes

xenˈophile noun

A person who likes foreigners or foreign things

xenˈophobe /-fōb/ noun

(Gr phobos fear) a person who fears or hates foreigners or foreign things

xenophobia /-fōˈbi-ə/ or (rare) xenˈophoby noun

Fear or hatred of foreigners and foreign things

xenopho'bic adjective

xenophya /zen-ofˈi-ə/ plural noun (Gr xenophyēs strange in shape or nature; biology)

Elements of a shell or skeleton not secreted by the organism itself

xenoplasˈtic adjective

In experimental zoology, of a chimera in which transplant and host come from different species or genera

Xenˈopus noun

A genus of African aquatic frogs (see platanna)

xenotime /zenˈō-tīm/ noun

(Gr xenos strange, in error for kenos empty, vain, and timē honour, in reference to the fact that the mineral was at first thought to contain a new metal) yttrium phosphate, often containing small quantities of cerium, erbium and thorium, and an important source of these rare elements

xēˈnotransplant transitive verb, intransitive verb and noun

xenotransplantāˈtion noun

The transplanting of an organ from an individual of one species into an individual of another species

xenūˈrine adjective

Xenurus /zē-nūˈrəs/ noun

(Gr ourā tail) a genus of armadillos in which the tail is almost without plates