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- English Word Pentagram Definition A pentacle or a pentalpha.
- English Word Pentagraphic Definition Alt. of Pentagraphical
- English Word Pentagraphical Definition Pantographic. See Pantograph.
- English Word Pentagynia Definition A Linnaean order of plants, having five styles or pistils.
- English Word Pentagynian Definition Alt. of Pentagynous
- English Word Pentagynous Definition Of or pertaining to plants of the order Pentagyna; having five styles.
- English Word Pentahedral Definition Having five sides; as, a pentahedral figure.
- English Word Pentahedrical Definition Pentahedral.
- English Word Pentahedron Definition A solid figure having five sides.
- English Word Pentahedrous Definition Pentahedral.
- English Word Pentail Definition A peculiar insectivore (Ptilocercus Lowii) of Borneo; -- so called from its very long, quill-shaped tail, which is scaly at the base and plumose at the tip.
- English Word Pentalpha Definition A five-pointed star, resembling five alphas joined at their bases; -- used as a symbol.
- English Word Pentamera Definition An extensive division of Coleoptera, including those that normally have five-jointed tarsi. It embraces about half of all the known species of the Coleoptera.
- English Word Pentameran Definition One of the Pentamera.
- English Word Pentamerous Definition Divided into, or consisting of, five parts; also, arranged in sets, with five parts in each set, as a flower with five sepals, five petals, five, or twice five, stamens, and five pistils.
- English Word Pentamerous Definition Belonging to the Pentamera.
- English Word Pentamerus Definition A genus of extinct Paleozoic brachiopods, often very abundant in the Upper Silurian.
- English Word Pentameter Definition A verse of five feet.
- English Word Pentameter Definition Having five metrical feet.
- English Word Pentamethylene Definition A hypothetical hydrocarbon, C5H10, metameric with the amylenes, and the nucleus of a large number of derivatives; -- so named because regarded as composed of five methylene residues. Cf. Trimethylene, and Tetramethylene.
- English Word Pentandria Definition A Linnaean class of plants having five separate stamens.
- English Word Pentandrian Definition Alt. of Pentandrous
- English Word Pentandrous Definition Of or pertaining to the class Pentadria; having five stamens.
- English Word Pentane Definition Any one of the three metameric hydrocarbons, C5H12, of the methane or paraffin series. They are colorless, volatile liquids, two of which occur in petroleum. So called because of the five carbon atoms in the molecule.
- English Word Pentangle Definition A pentagon.
- English Word Pentangular Definition Having five corners or angles.
- English Word Pentapetalous Definition Having five petals, or flower leaves.
- English Word Pentaphyllous Definition Having five leaves or leaflets.
- English Word Pentapody Definition A measure or series consisting of five feet.
- English Word Pentaptote Definition A noun having five cases.