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- English Word Phacochere Definition The wart hog.
- English Word Phacoid Definition Resembling a lentil; lenticular.
- English Word Phacolite Definition A colorless variety of chabazite; the original was from Leipa, in Bohemia.
- English Word Phacops Definition A genus of trilobites found in the Silurian and Devonian formations. Phacops bufo is one of the most common species.
- English Word Phaeacian Definition Of or pertaining to the Phaeacians, a fabulous seafaring people fond of the feast, the lyre, and the dance, mentioned by Homer.
- English Word Phaenogam Definition Any plant of the class Phaenogamia.
- English Word Phaenogamia Definition The class of flowering plants including all which have true flowers with distinct floral organs; phanerogamia.
- English Word Phaenogamian Definition Alt. of Phaenogamic
- English Word Phaenogamic Definition Same as Phaenogamous.
- English Word Phaenogamous Definition Having true flowers with with distinct floral organs; flowering.
- English Word Phaenomenon Definition See Phenomenon.
- English Word Phaeospore Definition A brownish zoospore, characteristic of an order (Phaeosporeae) of dark green or olive-colored algae.
- English Word Phaethon Definition The son of Helios (Phoebus), that is, the son of light, or of the sun. He is fabled to have obtained permission to drive the chariot of the sun, in doing which his want of skill would have set the world on fire, had he not been struck with a thunderbolt by Jupiter, and hurled headlong into the river Po.
- English Word Phaethon Definition A genus of oceanic birds including the tropic birds.
- English Word Phaeton Definition A four-wheeled carriage (with or without a top), open, or having no side pieces, in front of the seat. It is drawn by one or two horses.
- English Word Phaeton Definition See Phaethon.
- English Word Phaeton Definition A handsome American butterfly (Euphydryas, / Melitaea, Phaeton). The upper side of the wings is black, with orange-red spots and marginal crescents, and several rows of cream-colored spots; -- called also Baltimore.
- English Word Phagedena Definition A canine appetite; bulimia.
- English Word Phagedena Definition Spreading, obstinate ulceration.
- English Word Phagedenic Definition Alt. of PhagedenicAL
- English Word PhagedenicAL Definition Of, like, or pertaining to, phagedena; used in the treatment of phagedena; as, a phagedenic ulcer or medicine.
- English Word PhagedenicAL Definition A phagedenic medicine.
- English Word Phagedenous Definition Phagedenic.
- English Word Phagocyte Definition A leucocyte which plays a part in retrogressive processes by taking up (eating), in the form of fine granules, the parts to be removed.
- English Word Phainopepla Definition A small crested passerine bird (Phainopepla nitens), native of Mexico and the Southern United States. The adult male is of a uniform glossy blue-black; the female is brownish. Called also black flycatcher.
- English Word Phakoscope Definition An instrument for studying the mechanism of accommodation.
- English Word Phalaena Definition A linnaean genus which included the moths in general.
- English Word Phalaenid Definition Any moth of the family Phalaenidae, of which the cankerworms are examples; a geometrid.
- English Word Phalangal Definition Of or pertaining to the phalanges. See Phalanx, 2.
- English Word Phalangeal Definition Alt. of Phalangal