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  • English Word Pylas Definition of Pyla
  • English Word Pylon Definition A low tower, having a truncated pyramidal form, and flanking an ancient Egyptian gateway.
  • English Word Pylon Definition An Egyptian gateway to a large building (with or without flanking towers).
  • English Word Pylori Definition of Pylorus
  • English Word Pyloric Definition Of, pertaining to, or in the region of, the pylorus; as, the pyloric end of the stomach.
  • English Word Pylorus Definition The opening from the stomach into the intestine.
  • English Word Pylorus Definition A posterior division of the stomach in some invertebrates.
  • English Word Pyne Definition See Pine.
  • English Word Pynoun Definition A pennant.
  • English Word Pyocyanin Definition A blue coloring matter found in the pus from old sores, supposed to be formed through the agency of a species of bacterium (Bacillus pyocyaneus).
  • English Word Pyogenic Definition Producing or generating pus.
  • English Word Pyoid Definition Of or pertaining to pus; of the nature of, or like, pus.
  • English Word Pyopneumothorax Definition Accumulation of air, or other gas, and of pus, in the pleural cavity.
  • English Word Pyot Definition The magpie. See Piet.
  • English Word Pyoxanthose Definition A greenish yellow crystalline coloring matter found with pyocyanin in pus.
  • English Word Pyr- Definition Combining forms designating fire or heat; specifically (Chem.), used to imply an actual or theoretical derivative by the action of heat; as in pyrophosphoric, pyrosulphuric, pyrotartaric, pyrotungstic, etc.
  • English Word Pyracanth Definition The evergreen thorn (Crataegus Pyracantha), a shrub native of Europe.
  • English Word Pyral Definition Of or pertaining to a pyre.
  • English Word Pyralid Definition Any moth of the family Pyralidae. The species are numerous and mostly small, but some of them are very injurious, as the bee moth, meal moth, hop moth, and clover moth.
  • English Word Pyramid Definition A solid body standing on a triangular, square, or polygonal base, and terminating in a point at the top; especially, a structure or edifice of this shape.
  • English Word Pyramid Definition A solid figure contained by a plane rectilineal figure as base and several triangles which have a common vertex and whose bases are sides of the base.
  • English Word Pyramid Definition The game of pool in which the balls are placed in the form of a triangle at spot.
  • English Word Pyramidal Definition Of or pertaining to a pyramid; in the form of a a pyramid; pyramidical; as, pyramidal cleavage.
  • English Word Pyramidal Definition Same as Tetragonal.
  • English Word Pyramidal Definition One of the carpal bones. See Cuneiform, n., 2 (b).
  • English Word Pyramidally Definition Like a pyramid.
  • English Word Pyramides Definition of Pyramis
  • English Word Pyramidia Definition of Pyramidion
  • English Word Pyramidic Definition Alt. of Pyramidical
  • English Word Pyramidical Definition Of or pertaining to a pyramid; having the form of a pyramid; pyramidal.