POLYPODE
POL'YPODE, noun [Gr.] An animal having many feet; the milleped or wood-louse.
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POLYPODY
POLYP'ODY, noun [Latin polypodium, from the Greek. See Polype.]A plant of the genus Polypodium, of the order of Filices or ferns. The fructifications are in roundish points, sca...
POLYPOUS
POL'YPOUS, adjective [from polypus.] Having the nature of the polypus; having many feet or roots, like the polypus; as a polypous concretion.
POLYPUS
POL'YPUS, noun [Gr. many and foot.]1. Something that has many feet or roots.2. In zoology, a species of fresh water insect, belonging to the genus Hydra and order of zoophytes. ...
POLYSCOPE
POL'YSCOPE, noun [Gr. many and to view.] A glass which makes a single object appear as many.
POLYSPAST
POL'YSPAST, noun [Gr. many and to draw.] A machine consisting of many pulleys.
POLYSPERM
POL'YSPERM, noun [Gr. many and seed.] A tree whose fruit contains many seeds.
POLYSPERMOUS
POLYSPERM'OUS, adjective Containing many seeds; as a polyspermous capsule or berry.
POLYSYLLABIC
POLYSYLLAB'ICPOLYSYLLAB'ICAL, adjective [from polysyllable.] Pertaining to a polysyllable; consisting of many syllables, or of more than three.
POLYSYLLABICAL
POLYSYLLAB'ICAL, a. [from polysyllable.] Pertaining to a polysyllable; consisting of many syllables, or of more than three.
POLYSYLLABLE
POL'YSYLLABLE, noun [Gr.many and a syllable.] A word of many syllables, that is, consisting of more syllables than three, for words of a less number than four are called monosyl...
POLYSYNDETON
POLYSYN'DETON, noun [Gr. many and connecting.] A figure of rhetoric by which the copulative is often repeated; as, 'we have ships and men and money and stores.'
POLYTECHNIC
POLYTECH'NIC, adjective [Gr.many and art.] Denoting or comprehending many arts; as a polytechnic school.
POLYTHEISM
POL'YTHEISM, noun [Gr. many and God.] The doctrine of a plurality of gods or invisible beings superior to man, and having an agency in the government of the world.
POLYTHEIST
POL'YTHEIST, noun A person who believes in or maintains the doctrine of a plurality of gods.
POLYTHEISTIC
POLYTHEIS'TICPOLYTHEIS'TICAL, adjective Pertaining to polytheism; as polytheistic belief or worship.1. Holding a plurality of gods; as a polytheistic writer.
POLYTHEISTICAL
POLYTHEIS'TICAL, a. Pertaining to polytheism; as polytheistic belief or worship.1. Holding a plurality of gods; as a polytheistic writer.
POMACE
POMACE, noun [from Latin pomum, an apple.] The substance of apples or of similar fruit crushed by grinding. In America, it is so called before and after being pressed. [See Pomp...
POMACEOUS
POMA'CEOUS, adjective Consisting of apples; as pomaceous harvests.1. Like pomace.
POMADE
POMA'DE, noun Perfumed ointment. [Little used.]
POMANDER
PO'MANDER, noun A sweet ball; a perfumed ball or powder.
POMATUM
POMA'TUM, noun An unguent or composition used in dressing the hair. It is also used in medicine.POMA'TUM, verb transitive To apply pomatum to the hair.
POME
POME, noun [Latin pomum.] In botany, a pulpy pericarp without valves, containing a capsule or core, as the apple, pear, etc.POME, verb intransitive To grow to a head, or form a ...
POME-WATER
PO'ME-WATER, noun A sort of apple.
POMECITRON
POMECIT'RON, noun A citron apple.
POMEGRANATE
POMEGRAN'ATE, noun [Latin pomum, an apple, and granatum, grained. See Grain and Granate.]1. The fruit of a tree belonging to the genus Punica. This fruit is as large as an orang...
POMEGRANATE-TREE
POMEGRANATE-TREE, noun The tree which produces pomegranates.