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- English Word Pyramidion Definition The small pyramid which crowns or completes an obelisk.
- English Word Pyramidoid Definition A solid resembling a pyramid; -- called also pyramoid.
- English Word Pyramis Definition A pyramid.
- English Word Pyramoid Definition See Pyramidoid.
- English Word Pyrargyrite Definition Ruby silver; dark red silver ore. It is a sulphide of antimony and silver, occurring in rhombohedral crystals or massive, and is of a dark red or black color with a metallic adamantine luster.
- English Word Pyre Definition A funeral pile; a combustible heap on which the dead are burned; hence, any pile to be burnt.
- English Word Pyrena Definition A nutlet resembling a seed, or the kernel of a drupe.
- English Word Pyrenae Definition of Pyrena
- English Word Pyrene Definition One of the less volatile hydrocarbons of coal tar, obtained as a white crystalline substance, C16H10.
- English Word Pyrene Definition Same as Pyrena.
- English Word Pyrenean Definition Of or pertaining to the Pyrenees, a range of mountains separating France and Spain.
- English Word Pyrenean Definition The Pyrenees.
- English Word Pyrenoid Definition A transparent body found in the chromatophores of certain Infusoria.
- English Word Pyrethrin Definition A substance resembling, and isomeric with, ordinary camphor, and extracted from the essential oil of feverfew; -- called also Pyrethrum camphor.
- English Word Pyrethrine Definition An alkaloid extracted from the root of the pellitory of Spain (Anacyclus pyrethrum).
- English Word Pyretic Definition Of or pertaining to fever; febrile.
- English Word Pyretology Definition A discourse or treatise on fevers; the doctrine of fevers.
- English Word Pyrexia Definition The febrile condition.
- English Word Pyrexiae Definition of Pyrexia
- English Word Pyrexial Definition Alt. of Pyrexical