Definition of "zombi" []

• Someone who acts or responds in a mechanical or apathetic way (noun)
• (voodooism) a spirit or supernatural force that reanimates a dead body (noun)
• A god of voodoo cults of African origin worshipped especially in West Indies (noun)
• A dead body that has been brought back to life by a supernatural force (noun)
• Several kinds of rum with fruit juice and usually apricot liqueur (noun)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "Yet despite his years of research, the only evidence that implicated datura was the fact that the plant was called the zombi’s cucumber."
• "For Narcisse, a zombi was a being without will, on the very frontier of the natural world, an entity that could manifest itself as either spirit or human."
• "With Indy, they approached me with the idea of Jones and zombies -- and they liked the "zombi" spelling."