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- English Word Podosperm Definition The stalk of a seed or ovule.
- English Word Podostomata Definition An order of Bryozoa of which Rhabdopleura is the type. See Rhabdopleura.
- English Word Podotheca Definition The scaly covering of the foot of a bird or reptile.
- English Word Podothecae Definition of Podotheca
- English Word Podrida Definition A miscellaneous dish of meats. See Olla-podrida.
- English Word Podura Definition Any small leaping thysanurous insect of the genus Podura and related genera; a springtail.
- English Word Podurae Definition of Podura
- English Word Poduras Definition of Podura
- English Word Podurid Definition Any species of Podura or allied genera.
- English Word Podurid Definition Pertaining to the poduras.
- English Word Poe Definition Same as Poi.
- English Word Poebird Definition The parson bird.
- English Word Poecile Definition Same as Poicile.
- English Word Poecile Definition The frescoed porch or gallery in Athens where Zeno taught.
- English Word Poecilitic Definition Mottled with various colors; variegated; spotted; -- said of certain rocks.
- English Word Poecilitic Definition Specifically: Of or pertaining to, or characterizing, Triassic and Permian sandstones of red and other colors.
- English Word Poecilopod Definition One of the Poecilopoda. Also used adjectively.
- English Word Poecilopoda Definition Originally, an artificial group including many parasitic Entomostraca, together with the horseshoe crabs (Limuloidea).
- English Word Poecilopoda Definition By some recent writers applied to the Merostomata.
- English Word Poem Definition A metrical composition; a composition in verse written in certain measures, whether in blank verse or in rhyme, and characterized by imagination and poetic diction; -- contradistinguished from prose; as, the poems of Homer or of Milton.
- English Word Poem Definition A composition, not in verse, of which the language is highly imaginative or impassioned; as, a prose poem; the poems of Ossian.
- English Word Poematic Definition Pertaining to a poem, or to poetry; poetical.
- English Word Poenamu Definition A variety of jade or nephrite, -- used in New Zealand for the manufacture of axes and weapons.
- English Word Poenology Definition See Penology.
- English Word Poephaga Definition A group of herbivorous marsupials including the kangaroos and their allies.
- English Word Poesy Definition The art of composing poems; poetical skill or faculty; as, the heavenly gift of poesy.
- English Word Poesy Definition Poetry; metrical composition; poems.
- English Word Poesy Definition A short conceit or motto engraved on a ring or other thing; a posy.
- English Word Poet Definition One skilled in making poetry; one who has a particular genius for metrical composition; the author of a poem; an imaginative thinker or writer.
- English Word Poetaster Definition An inferior rhymer, or writer of verses; a dabbler in poetic art.