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- English Word Protoconch Definition The embryonic shell, or first chamber, of ammonites and other cephalopods.
- English Word Protogine Definition A kind of granite or gneiss containing a silvery talcose mineral.
- English Word Protogynous Definition Same as Proterogynous.
- English Word Protohippus Definition A genus of fossil horses from the Lower Pliocene. They had three toes on each foot, the lateral ones being small.
- English Word Protomartyr Definition The first martyr; the first who suffers, or is sacrificed, in any cause; -- applied esp. to Stephen, the first Christian martyr.
- English Word Protomerite Definition The second segment of one of the Gregarinae.
- English Word Protomorphic Definition Having the most primitive character; in the earliest form; as, a protomorphic layer of tissue.
- English Word Protonema Definition The primary growth from the spore of a moss, usually consisting of branching confervoid filaments, on any part of which stem and leaf buds may be developed.
- English Word Protonemata Definition of Protonema
- English Word Protonotary Definition A chief notary or clerk.
- English Word Protonotary Definition Formerly, a chief clerk in the Court of King's Bench and in the Court of Common Pleas, now superseded by the master.
- English Word Protonotary Definition A register or chief clerk of a court in certain States of the United States.
- English Word Protonotary Definition Formerly, one who had the charge of writing the acts of the martyrs, and the circumstances of their death; now, one of twelve persons, constituting a college in the Roman Curia, whose office is to register pontifical acts and to make and preserve the official record of beatifications.
- English Word Protonotary Definition The chief secretary of the patriarch of Constantinople.
- English Word Protonotary Definition Same as Prothonotary.
- English Word Protoorganism Definition An organism whose nature is so difficult to determine that it might be referred to either the animal or the vegetable kingdom.
- English Word Protopapas Definition A protopope.
- English Word Protophyte Definition Any unicellular plant, or plant forming only a plasmodium, having reproduction only by fission, gemmation, or cell division.
- English Word Protophytology Definition Paleobotany.
- English Word Protopine Definition An alkaloid found in opium in small quantities, and extracted as a white crystalline substance.