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- English Word Partaker Definition An accomplice; an associate; a partner.
- English Word Partaking Definition of Partake
- English Word Partan Definition An edible British crab.
- English Word Parted Definition of Part
- English Word Parted Definition Separated; devided.
- English Word Parted Definition Endowed with parts or abilities.
- English Word Parted Definition Cleft so that the divisions reach nearly, but not quite, to the midrib, or the base of the blade; -- said of a leaf, and used chiefly in composition; as, three-parted, five-parted, etc.
- English Word Partenope Definition One of the Sirens, who threw herself into the sea, in despair at not being able to beguile Ulysses by her songs.
- English Word Partenope Definition One of the asteroids between Mars and Jupiter, descovered by M. de Gasparis in 1850.
- English Word Parter Definition One who, or which, parts or separates.
- English Word parterie Definition Articles made of the blades or fiber of the Lygeum Spartum and Stipa (/ Macrochloa) tenacissima, kinds of grass used in Spain and other countries for making ropes, mats, baskets, nets, and mattresses.
- English Word Parterre Definition An ornamental and diversified arrangement of beds or plots, in which flowers are cultivated, with intervening spaces of gravel or turf for walking on.
- English Word Parterre Definition The pit of a theater; the parquet.
- English Word Partheniad Definition A poem in honor of a virgin.
- English Word Parthenic Definition Of or pertaining to the Spartan Partheniae, or sons of unmarried women.
- English Word Parthenogenesis Definition The production of new individuals from virgin females by means of ova which have the power of developing without the intervention of the male element; the production, without fertilization, of cells capable of germination. It is one of the phenomena of alternate generation. Cf. Heterogamy, and Metagenesis.
- English Word Parthenogenesis Definition The production of seed without fertilization, believed to occur through the nonsexual formation of an embryo extraneous to the embrionic vesicle.
- English Word Parthenogenetic Definition Of, pertaining to, or produced by, parthenogenesis; as, parthenogenetic forms.
- English Word Parthenogenitive Definition Parthenogenetic.
- English Word Parthenogeny Definition Same as Parthenogenesis.
- English Word Parthenon Definition A celebrated marble temple of Athene, on the Acropolis at Athens. It was of the pure Doric order, and has had an important influence on art.
- English Word Parthian Definition Of or pertaining to ancient Parthia, in Asia.
- English Word Parthian Definition A native Parthia.
- English Word Parti-colored Definition Colored with different tints; variegated; as, a party-colored flower.
- English Word Partial Definition Of, pertaining to, or affecting, a part only; not general or universal; not total or entire; as, a partial eclipse of the moon.
- English Word Partial Definition Inclined to favor one party in a cause, or one side of a question, more then the other; baised; not indifferent; as, a judge should not be partial.
- English Word Partial Definition Having a predelection for; inclined to favor unreasonably; foolishly fond.
- English Word Partial Definition Pertaining to a subordinate portion; as, a compound umbel is made up of a several partial umbels; a leaflet is often supported by a partial petiole.
- English Word Partialism Definition Partiality; specifically (Theol.), the doctrine of the Partialists.
- English Word Partialist Definition One who is partial.