Coprolite :: Coprolite (n.) A piece of petrified dung; a fossil excrement.

Coprolitic :: Coprolitic (a.) Containing, pertaining to, or of the nature of, coprolites..

Ichthyocoprolite :: Ichthyocoprolite (n.) Fossil dung of fishes.

Improlific :: Improlific (a.) Not prolific.

Improlificate :: Improlificate (v. t.) To impregnate.

Prolapse :: Prolapse (n.) The falling down of a part through the orifice with which it is naturally connected, especially of the uterus or the rectum..

Prolapse :: Prolapse (v. i.) To fall down or out; to protrude.

Prolapsion :: Prolapsion (n.) Prolapse.

Prolapsus :: Prolapsus (n.) Prolapse.

Prolata :: Prolata (pl. ) of Prolatu.

Prolate :: Prolate (a.) Stretched out; extended; especially, elongated in the direction of a line joining the poles; as, a prolate spheroid; -- opposed to oblate..

Prolate :: Prolate (v. t.) To utter; to pronounce.

Prolation :: Prolation (n.) The act of prolating or pronouncing; utterance; pronunciation.

Prolation :: Prolation (n.) The act of deferring; delay.

Prolation :: Prolation (n.) A mediaeval method of determining of the proportionate duration of semibreves and minims.

Prolatum :: Prolatum (n.) A prolate spheroid. See Ellipsoid of revolution, under Ellipsoid..

Proleg :: Proleg (n.) One of the fleshy legs found on the abdominal segments of the larvae of Lepidoptera, sawflies, and some other insects. Those of Lepidoptera have a circle of hooks. Called also proped, propleg, and falseleg..

Prolegate :: Prolegate (n.) The deputy or substitute for a legate.

Prolegomena :: Prolegomena (pl. ) of Prolegomeno.

Prolegomenary :: Prolegomenary (a.) Of the nature of a prolegomenon; preliminary; introductory; prefatory.

Prolegomenon :: Prolegomenon (n.) A preliminary remark or observation; an introductory discourse prefixed to a book or treatise.

Prolepsis :: Prolepsis (n.) A figure by which objections are anticipated or prevented.

Prolepsis :: Prolepsis (n.) A necessary truth or assumption; a first or assumed principle.

Prolepsis :: Prolepsis (n.) An error in chronology, consisting in an event being dated before the actual time..

Prolepsis :: Prolepsis (n.) The application of an adjective to a noun in anticipation, or to denote the result, of the action of the verb; as, to strike one dumb..

Proleptic :: Proleptic (a.) Alt. of Proleptica.

Proleptical :: Proleptical (a.) Of or pertaining to prolepsis; anticipative.

Proleptical :: Proleptical (a.) Previous; antecedent.

Proleptical :: Proleptical (a.) Anticipating the usual time; -- applied to a periodical disease whose paroxysms return at an earlier hour at every repetition.

Proleptically :: Proleptically (adv.) In a proleptical manner.

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