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- English Word Pleonastical Definition Of or pertaining to pleonasm; of the nature of pleonasm; redundant.
- English Word Pleonastically Definition In a pleonastic manner.
- English Word Pleopod Definition One of the abdominal legs of a crustacean. See Illust. under Crustacea.
- English Word Pleopoda Definition of Pleopod
- English Word Pleopods Definition of Pleopod
- English Word Plerome Definition The central column of parenchyma in a growing stem or root.
- English Word Plerophory Definition Fullness; full persuasion.
- English Word Plesance Definition Pleasance.
- English Word Plesh Definition A pool; a plash.
- English Word Plesimorphism Definition The property possessed by some substances of crystallizing in closely similar forms while unlike in chemical composition.
- English Word Plesiomorphous Definition Nearly alike in form.
- English Word Plesiosaur Definition One of the Plesiosauria.
- English Word Plesiosauri Definition of Plesiosaurus
- English Word Plesiosauria Definition An extinct order of Mesozoic marine reptiles including the genera Plesiosaurus, and allied forms; -- called also Sauropterygia.
- English Word Plesiosaurian Definition A plesiosaur.
- English Word Plesiosaurus Definition A genus of large extinct marine reptiles, having a very long neck, a small head, and paddles for swimming. It lived in the Mesozoic age.
- English Word Plessimeter Definition See Pleximeter.
- English Word Plete Definition To plead.
- English Word Plethora Definition Overfullness; especially, excessive fullness of the blood vessels; repletion; that state of the blood vessels or of the system when the blood exceeds a healthy standard in quantity; hyperaemia; -- opposed to anaemia.
- English Word Plethora Definition State of being overfull; excess; superabundance.
- English Word Plethoretic Definition Plethoric.
- English Word Plethoric Definition Haeving a full habit of body; characterized by plethora or excess of blood; as, a plethoric constitution; -- used also metaphorically.
- English Word Plethorical Definition Plethoric.
- English Word Plethory Definition Plethora.
- English Word Plethra Definition of Plethrum
- English Word Plethron Definition Alt. of Plethrum
- English Word Plethrum Definition A long measure of 100 Greek, or 101 English, feet; also, a square measure of 10,000 Greek feet.
- English Word Plethysmograph Definition An instrument for determining and registering the variations in the size or volume of a limb, as the arm or leg, and hence the variations in the amount of blood in the limb.
- English Word Plethysmography Definition The study, by means of the plethysmograph, of the variations in size of a limb, and hence of its blood supply.
- English Word Pletinian Definition Of pertaining to the Plotinists or their doctrines.