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- English Word Platyelminthes Definition A class of helminthes including the cestodes, or tapeworms, the trematodes, and the turbellarians. Called also flatworms.
- English Word Platyhelmia Definition Same as Platyelminthes.
- English Word Platymeter Definition An apparatus for measuring the capacity of condensers, or the inductive capacity of dielectrics.
- English Word Platypod Definition An animal having broad feet, or a broad foot.
- English Word Platypoda Definition Same as Prosobranchiata.
- English Word Platyptera Definition A division of Pseudoneuroptera including the species which have four broad, flat wings, as the termites, or white-ants, and the stone flies (Perla).
- English Word Platypus Definition The duck mole. See under Duck.
- English Word Platyrhine Definition Having the nose broad; -- opposed to leptorhine.
- English Word Platyrhine Definition One of the Platyrhini.
- English Word Platyrhini Definition A division of monkeys, including the American species, which have a broad nasal septum, thirty-six teeth, and usually a prehensile tail. See Monkey.
- English Word Plaud Definition To applaud.
- English Word Plaudit Definition A mark or expression of applause; praise bestowed.
- English Word Plauditory Definition Applauding; commending.
- English Word Plausibility Definition Something worthy of praise.
- English Word Plausibility Definition The quality of being plausible; speciousness.
- English Word Plausibility Definition Anything plausible or specious.
- English Word Plausible Definition Worthy of being applauded; praiseworthy; commendable; ready.
- English Word Plausible Definition Obtaining approbation; specifically pleasing; apparently right; specious; as, a plausible pretext; plausible manners; a plausible delusion.
- English Word Plausible Definition Using specious arguments or discourse; as, a plausible speaker.
- English Word Plausibleize Definition To render plausible.