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  • English Word Phytophagic Definition Phytophagous.
  • English Word Phytophagous Definition Feeding on plants; herbivorous; as, a phytophagous animal.
  • English Word Phytophagy Definition The eating of plants.
  • English Word Phytophysiology Definition Vegetable physiology.
  • English Word Phytotomist Definition One versed in phytotomy.
  • English Word Phytotomy Definition The dissection of plants; vegetable anatomy.
  • English Word Phytozoa Definition of Phytozoon
  • English Word Phytozoaria Definition Same as Infusoria.
  • English Word Phytozoon Definition A plantlike animal. The term is sometimes applied to zoophytes.
  • English Word Phyz Definition See Phiz.
  • English Word Pi Definition A mass of type confusedly mixed or unsorted.
  • English Word Pi Definition To put into a mixed and disordered condition, as type; to mix and disarrange the type of; as, to pi a form.
  • English Word Pia cloth Definition A fine material for ladies' shawls, scarfs, handkerchiefs, etc., made from the fiber of the pineapple leaf, and perhaps from other fibrous tropical leaves. It is delicate, soft, and transparent, with a slight tinge of pale yellow.
  • English Word Pia mater Definition The delicate and highly vascular membrane immediately investing the brain and spinal cord.
  • English Word Piacaba Definition See Piassava.
  • English Word Piacle Definition A heinous offense which requires expiation.
  • English Word Piacular Definition Expiatory; atoning.
  • English Word Piacular Definition Requiring expiation; criminal; atrociously bad.
  • English Word Piacularity Definition The quality or state of being piacular; criminality; wickedness.
  • English Word Piaculous Definition Same as Piacular.
  • English Word Pial Definition Pertaining to the pia mater.
  • English Word Pian Definition The yaws. See Yaws.
  • English Word Pianet Definition The magpie.
  • English Word Pianet Definition The lesser woodpecker.
  • English Word Pianette Definition A small piano; a pianino.
  • English Word Pianino Definition A pianette, or small piano.
  • English Word Pianissimo Definition Very soft; -- a direction to execute a passage as softly as possible. (Abbrev. pp.)
  • English Word Pianist Definition A performer, esp. a skilled performer, on the piano.
  • English Word Piano Definition Soft; -- a direction to the performer to execute a certain passage softly, and with diminished volume of tone. (Abbrev. p.)
  • English Word Piano Definition Alt. of Pianoforte