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- English Word Psarolite Definition A silicified stem of tree fern, found in abundance in the Triassic sandstone.
- English Word Psellism Definition Indistinct pronunciation; stammering.
- English Word Psephism Definition A proposition adopted by a majority of votes; especially, one adopted by vote of the Athenian people; a statute.
- English Word Pseudaesthesia Definition False or imaginary feeling or sense perception such as occurs in hypochondriasis, or such as is referred to an organ that has been removed, as an amputated foot.
- English Word Pseudembryo Definition A false embryo.
- English Word Pseudembryo Definition An asexual form from which the true embryo is produced by budding.
- English Word Pseudepigraphic Definition Alt. of Pseudepigraphic
- English Word Pseudepigraphic Definition Of or pertaining to pseudepigraphy.
- English Word Pseudepigraphous Definition Inscribed with a false name.
- English Word Pseudepigraphy Definition The ascription of false names of authors to works.
- English Word Pseudhaemal Definition Pertaining to the vascular system of annelids.
- English Word Pseudo- Definition A combining form or prefix signifying false, counterfeit, pretended, spurious; as, pseudo-apostle, a false apostle; pseudo-clergy, false or spurious clergy; pseudo-episcopacy, pseudo-form, pseudo-martyr, pseudo-philosopher. Also used adjectively.
- English Word Pseudo-bulb Definition An aerial corm, or thickened stem, as of some epiphytic orchidaceous plants.
- English Word Pseudo-china Definition The false china root, a plant of the genus Smilax (S. Pseudo-china), found in America.
- English Word Pseudo-cone Definition One of the soft gelatinous cones found in the compound eyes of certain insects, taking the place of the crystalline cones of others.
- English Word Pseudo-cumene Definition A hydrocarbon of the aromatic series, metameric with mesitylene and cumene, found in coal tar, and obtained as a colorless liquid.
- English Word Pseudo-dipteral Definition Falsely or imperfectly dipteral, as a temple with the inner range of columns surrounding the cella omitted, so that the space between the cella wall and the columns is very great, being equal to two intercolumns and one column.
- English Word Pseudo-dipteral Definition A pseudo-dipteral temple.
- English Word Pseudo-galena Definition False galena, or blende. See Blende (a).
- English Word Pseudo-heart Definition Any contractile vessel of invertebrates which is not of the nature of a real heart, especially one of those pertaining to the excretory system.
- English Word Pseudo-hyperthophic Definition Falsely hypertrophic; as, pseudo-hypertrophic paralysis, a variety of paralysis in which the muscles are apparently enlarged, but are really degenerated and replaced by fat.
- English Word Pseudo-metallic Definition Falsely or imperfectly metallic; -- said of a kind of luster, as in minerals.
- English Word Pseudo-monocotyledonous Definition Having two coalescent cotyledons, as the live oak and the horse-chestnut.
- English Word Pseudo-romantic Definition Falsely romantic.
- English Word Pseudo-symmetric Definition Exhibiting pseudo-symmetry.
- English Word Pseudo-symmetry Definition A kind of symmetry characteristic of certain crystals which from twinning, or other causes, come to resemble forms of a system other than that to which they belong, as the apparently hexagonal prisms of aragonite.
- English Word Pseudobacteria Definition Microscopic organic particles, molecular granules, powdered inorganic substances, etc., which in form, size, and grouping resemble bacteria.
- English Word Pseudoblepsis Definition False or depraved sight; imaginary vision of objects.
- English Word Pseudobranch Definition Same as Pseudobranchia.
- English Word Pseudobranchia Definition A rudimentary branchia, or gill.