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- English Word Polyacra Definition of Polyacron
- English Word Polyacron Definition A solid having many summits or angular points; a polyhedron.
- English Word Polyacrons Definition of Polyacron
- English Word Polyactinia Definition An old name for those Anthozoa which, like the actinias, have numerous simple tentacles.
- English Word Polyadelphia Definition A Linnaean class of plants having stamens united in three or more bodies or bundles by the filaments.
- English Word Polyadelphian Definition Alt. of Polyadelphous
- English Word Polyadelphous Definition Belonging to the class Polyadelphia; having stamens united in three or more bundles.
- English Word Polyandria Definition A Linnaean class of monoclinous or hermaphrodite plants, having many stamens, or any number above twenty, inserted in the receptacle.
- English Word Polyandrian Definition Polyandrous.
- English Word Polyandric Definition Pertaining to, or characterized by, polyandry; mating with several males.
- English Word Polyandrous Definition Belonging to the class Polyandria; having many stamens, or any number above twenty, inserted in the receptacle.
- English Word Polyandry Definition The possession by a woman of more than one husband at the same time; -- contrasted with monandry.
- English Word Polyanthus Definition The oxlip. So called because the peduncle bears a many-flowered umbel. See Oxlip. (b) A bulbous flowering plant of the genus Narcissus (N. Tazetta, or N. polyanthus of some authors). See Illust. of Narcissus.
- English Word Polyanthuses Definition of Polyanthus
- English Word Polyarchist Definition One who advocates polyarchy; -- opposed to monarchist.
- English Word Polyarchy Definition A government by many persons, of whatever order or class.
- English Word Polyatomic Definition Having more than one atom in the molecule; consisting of several atoms.
- English Word Polyatomic Definition Having a valence greater than one.
- English Word Polyautography Definition The act or practice of multiplying copies of one's own handwriting, or of manuscripts, by printing from stone, -- a species of lithography.
- English Word Polybasic Definition Capable of neutralizing, or of combining with, several molecules of a monacid base; having several hydrogen atoms capable of being replaced by basic radicals; -- said of certain acids; as, sulphuric acid is polybasic.