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- English Word Polyzoary Definition The compound organism of a polyzoan.
- English Word Polyzonal Definition Consisting of many zones or rings.
- English Word Polyzoon Definition One of the individual zooids forming the compound organism of a polyzoan.
- English Word Pomace Definition The substance of apples, or of similar fruit, crushed by grinding.
- English Word Pomacentroid Definition Pertaining to the Pomacentridae, a family of bright-colored tropical fishes having spiny opercula; -- often called coral fishes.
- English Word Pomaceous Definition Like an apple or pear; producing pomes.
- English Word Pomaceous Definition Of or pertaining to a suborder (Pomeae) of rosaceous plants, which includes the true thorn trees, the quinces, service berries, medlars, and loquats, as well as the apples, pears, crabs, etc.
- English Word Pomaceous Definition Like pomace.
- English Word Pomade Definition Cider.
- English Word Pomade Definition Perfumed ointment; esp., a fragrant unguent for the hair; pomatum; -- originally made from apples.
- English Word Pomander Definition A perfume to be carried with one, often in the form of a ball.
- English Word Pomander Definition A box to contain such perfume, formerly carried by ladies, as at the end of a chain; -- more properly pomander box.
- English Word Pomarine Definition Having the nostril covered with a scale.
- English Word Pomatum Definition A perfumed unguent or composition, chiefly used in dressing the hair; pomade.
- English Word Pomatum Definition To dress with pomatum.
- English Word Pome Definition A fruit composed of several cartilaginous or bony carpels inclosed in an adherent fleshy mass, which is partly receptacle and partly calyx, as an apple, quince, or pear.
- English Word Pome Definition A ball of silver or other metal, which is filled with hot water, and used by the priest in cold weather to warm his hands during the service.
- English Word Pome Definition To grow to a head, or form a head in growing.
- English Word Pomegranate Definition The fruit of the tree Punica Granatum; also, the tree itself (see Balaustine), which is native in the Orient, but is successfully cultivated in many warm countries, and as a house plant in colder climates. The fruit is as large as an orange, and has a hard rind containing many rather large seeds, each one separately covered with crimson, acid pulp.
- English Word Pomegranate Definition A carved or embroidered ornament resembling a pomegranate.
- English Word Pomel Definition A pommel.
- English Word Pomelo Definition A variety of shaddock, called also grape fruit.
- English Word Pomely Definition Dappled.
- English Word Pomeranian Definition Of or pertaining to Pomerania, a province of Prussia on the Baltic Sea.
- English Word Pomeranian Definition A native or inhabitant of Pomerania.
- English Word Pomewater Definition A kind of sweet, juicy apple.
- English Word Pomey Definition A figure supposed to resemble an apple; a roundel, -- always of a green color.
- English Word Pomeys Definition of Pomey
- English Word Pomfret Definition One of two or more species of marine food fishes of the genus Stromateus (S. niger, S. argenteus) native of Southern Europe and Asia.
- English Word Pomfret Definition A marine food fish of Bermuda (Brama Raji).