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- English Word Pygostyle Definition The plate of bone which forms the posterior end of the vertebral column in most birds; the plowshare bone; the vomer. It is formed by the union of a number of the last caudal vertebrae, and supports the uropigium.
- English Word Pygropodes Definition A division of swimming birds which includes the grebes, divers, auks, etc., in which the legs are placed far back.
- English Word Pyin Definition An albuminoid constituent of pus, related to mucin, possibly a mixture of substances rather than a single body.
- English Word Pyjama Definition In India and Persia, thin loose trowsers or drawers; in Europe and America, drawers worn at night, or a kind of nightdress with legs.
- English Word Pykar Definition An ancient English fishing boat.
- English Word Pyla Definition The passage between the iter and optocoele in the brain.
- English Word Pylae Definition of Pyla
- English Word Pylagore Definition a deputy of a State at the Amphictyonic council.
- English Word Pylangia Definition of Pylangium
- English Word Pylangium Definition The first and undivided part of the aortic trunk in the amphibian heart.
- 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).