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- English Word Phleum Definition A genus of grasses, including the timothy (Phleum pratense), which is highly valued for hay; cat's-tail grass.
- English Word Phloem Definition That portion of fibrovascular bundles which corresponds to the inner bark; the liber tissue; -- distinguished from xylem.
- English Word Phlogistian Definition A believer in the existence of phlogiston.
- English Word Phlogistic Definition Of or pertaining to phlogiston, or to belief in its existence.
- English Word Phlogistic Definition Inflammatory; belonging to inflammations and fevers.
- English Word Phlogistical Definition Phlogistic.
- English Word Phlogisticate Definition To combine phlogiston with; -- usually in the form and sense of the p. p. or the adj.; as, highly phlogisticated substances.
- English Word Phlogisticated Definition of Phlogisticate
- English Word Phlogisticating Definition of Phlogisticate
- English Word Phlogistication Definition The act or process of combining with phlogiston.
- English Word Phlogiston Definition The hypothetical principle of fire, or inflammability, regarded by Stahl as a chemical element.
- English Word Phlogogenous Definition Causing inflammation.
- English Word Phlogopite Definition A kind of mica having generally a peculiar bronze-red or copperlike color and a pearly luster. It is a silicate of aluminia, with magnesia, potash, and some fluorine. It is characteristic of crystalline limestone or dolomite and serpentine. See Mica.
- English Word Phlogosis Definition Inflammation of external parts of the body; erysipelatous inflammation.
- English Word Phlogotic Definition Of or pertaining to phlogisis.
- English Word Phloramine Definition A basic amido derivative of phloroglucin, having an astringent taste.
- English Word Phloretic Definition Pertaining to, or derived from, or designating, an organic acid obtained by the decomposition of phloretin.
- English Word Phloretin Definition A bitter white crystalline substance obtained by the decomposition of phlorizin, and formerly used to some extent as a substitute for quinine.
- English Word Phlorizin Definition A bitter white crystalline glucoside extracted from the root bark of the apple, pear, cherry, plum, etc.
- English Word Phloroglucin Definition A sweet white crystalline substance, metameric with pyrogallol, and obtained by the decomposition of phloretin, and from certain gums, as catechu, kino, etc. It belongs to the class of phenols. [Called also phloroglucinol.]
- English Word Phlorol Definition A liquid metameric with xylenol, belonging to the class of phenols, and obtained by distilling certain salts of phloretic acid.
- English Word Phlorone Definition A yellow crystalline substance having a peculiar unpleasant odor, resembling the quinones, and obtained from beechwood tar and coal tar, as also by the oxidation of xylidine; -- called also xyloquinone.
- English Word Phlox Definition A genus of American herbs, having showy red, white, or purple flowers.
- English Word Phlyctenular Definition Characterized by the presence of small pustules, or whitish elevations resembling pustules; as, phlyctenular ophthalmia.
- English Word Phoca Definition A genus of seals. It includes the common harbor seal and allied species. See Seal.
- English Word Phocacean Definition Any species of Phoca; a seal.
- English Word Phocal Definition Pertaining to seals.
- English Word Phocenic Definition Of or pertaining to dolphin oil or porpoise oil; -- said of an acid (called also delphinic acid) subsequently found to be identical with valeric acid.
- English Word Phocenin Definition See Delphin.
- English Word Phocine Definition Of or pertaining to the seal tribe; phocal.