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- English Word Polyfoil Definition Same as Multifoil.
- English Word Polygala Definition A genus of bitter herbs or shrubs having eight stamens and a two-celled ovary (as the Seneca snakeroot, the flowering wintergreen, etc.); milkwort.
- English Word Polygalaceous Definition Of or pertaining to a natural order of plants (Polygalaceae) of which Polygala is the type.
- English Word Polygalic Definition Of, pertaining to, or obtained from, Polygala; specifically, designating an acrid glucoside (called polygalic acid, senegin, etc.), resembling, or possibly identical with, saponin.
- English Word Polygamia Definition A Linnaean class of plants, characterized by having both hermaphrodite and unisexual flowers on the same plant.
- English Word Polygamia Definition A name given by Linnaeus to file orders of plants having syngenesious flowers.
- English Word Polygamian Definition Polygamous.
- English Word Polygamist Definition One who practices polygamy, or maintains its lawfulness.
- English Word Polygamize Definition To practice polygamy; to marry several wives.
- English Word Polygamous Definition Of or pertaining to polygamy; characterized by, or involving, polygamy; having a plurality of wives; as, polygamous marriages; -- opposed to monogamous.
- English Word Polygamous Definition Pairing with more than one female.
- English Word Polygamous Definition Belonging to the Polygamia; bearing both hermaphrodite and unisexual flowers on the same plant.
- English Word Polygamy Definition The having of a plurality of wives or husbands at the same time; usually, the marriage of a man to more than one woman, or the practice of having several wives, at the same time; -- opposed to monogamy; as, the nations of the East practiced polygamy. See the Note under Bigamy, and cf. Polyandry.
- English Word Polygamy Definition The state or habit of having more than one mate.
- English Word Polygamy Definition The condition or state of a plant which bears both perfect and unisexual flowers.
- English Word Polygastrian Definition One of the Polygastrica.
- English Word Polygastric Definition Having several bellies; -- applied to muscles which are made up of several bellies separated by short tendons.
- English Word Polygastric Definition Pertaining to the Polygastrica.
- English Word Polygastric Definition One of the Polygastrica.
- English Word Polygastrica Definition The Infusoria.
- English Word Polygenesis Definition Alt. of Polygeny
- English Word Polygenetic Definition Having many distinct sources; originating at various places or times.
- English Word Polygenetic Definition Of or pertaining to polygenesis; polyphyletic.
- English Word Polygenic Definition Of or relating to polygeny; polygenetic.
- English Word Polygenism Definition The doctrine that animals of the same species have sprung from more than one original pair.
- English Word Polygenist Definition One who maintains that animals of the same species have sprung from more than one original pair; -- opposed to monogenist.
- English Word Polygenous Definition Consisting of, or containing, many kinds; as, a polygenous mountain.
- English Word Polygeny Definition The theory that living organisms originate in cells or embryos of different kinds, instead of coming from a single cell; -- opposed to monogenesis.
- English Word Polyglot Definition Containing, or made up, of, several languages; as, a polyglot lexicon, Bible.
- English Word Polyglot Definition Versed in, or speaking, many languages.