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- English Word Platonizer Definition One who Platonizes.
- English Word Platonizing Definition of Platonize
- English Word Platoon Definition Formerly, a body of men who fired together; also, a small square body of soldiers to strengthen the angles of a hollow square.
- English Word Platoon Definition Now, in the United States service, half of a company.
- English Word Platt Definition See Lodge, n.
- English Word Plattdeutsch Definition The modern dialects spoken in the north of Germany, taken collectively; modern Low German. See Low German, under German.
- English Word Platted Definition of Plat
- English Word Platten Definition To flatten and make into sheets or plates; as, to platten cylinder glass.
- English Word Platter Definition One who plats or braids.
- English Word Platter Definition A large plate or shallow dish on which meat or other food is brought to the table.
- English Word Platter-faced Definition Having a broad, flat face.
- English Word Platting Definition of Plat
- English Word Platting Definition Plaited strips or bark, cane, straw, etc., used for making hats or the like.
- English Word Platy Definition Like a plate; consisting of plates.
- English Word Platy- Definition A combining form from Gr. platy`s broad, wide, flat; as, platypus, platycephalous.
- English Word Platycephalic Definition Alt. of Platycephalous
- English Word Platycephalous Definition Broad-headed.
- English Word Platycnemic Definition Of, relating to, or characterized by, platycnemism.
- English Word Platycnemism Definition Lateral flattening of the tibia.
- English Word Platycoelian Definition Flat at the anterior and concave at the posterior end; -- said of the centra of the vertebrae of some extinct dinouaurs.
- English Word Platyelminthes Definition A class of helminthes including the cestodes, or tapeworms, the trematodes, and the turbellarians. Called also flatworms.
- English Word Platyhelmia Definition Same as Platyelminthes.
- English Word Platymeter Definition An apparatus for measuring the capacity of condensers, or the inductive capacity of dielectrics.
- English Word Platypod Definition An animal having broad feet, or a broad foot.
- English Word Platypoda Definition Same as Prosobranchiata.
- English Word Platyptera Definition A division of Pseudoneuroptera including the species which have four broad, flat wings, as the termites, or white-ants, and the stone flies (Perla).
- English Word Platypus Definition The duck mole. See under Duck.
- English Word Platyrhine Definition Having the nose broad; -- opposed to leptorhine.
- English Word Platyrhine Definition One of the Platyrhini.
- English Word Platyrhini Definition A division of monkeys, including the American species, which have a broad nasal septum, thirty-six teeth, and usually a prehensile tail. See Monkey.