ZYZZYVA - a tropical weevil
(And in the serendipity department, some folks in California - writers and artists, have a quarterly magazine called ZYZZYVA. http://www.zyzzyva.org/
You can't hear it pronounced at Dictionary.com, but they share this pronunciation guide: [ziz-uh-vuh]
Zyzzyva is a genus of tropical American weevil often found in association with palms. It is a snouted beetle. "Zyzzyva" is the last word in many English-language dictionaries.
The yellowish weevil is no longer than an ant. It was first discovered in 1922 in Brazil, and named by a Irishman Thomas Lincoln Casey, Jr. An entomologist at New York's Museum of Natural History thought that, because there was not a Latin name or Brazilian name associated with this weevil, it was probably named Zyzzyva as a practical joke to place it in a prominent ending position in many guides and manual
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