Pargasite :: Pargasite (n.) A dark green aluminous variety of amphibole, or hornblende..

Pegasean :: Pegasean (a.) Of or pertaining to Pegasus, or, figuratively, to poetry..

Pegasoid :: Pegasoid (a.) Like or pertaining to Pegasus.

Pegasus :: Pegasus (n.) A winged horse fabled to have sprung from the body of Medusa when she was slain. He is noted for causing, with a blow of his hoof, Hippocrene, the inspiring fountain of the Muses, to spring from Mount Helicon. On this account he is, in modern times, associated with the Muses, and with ideas of poetic inspiration..

Pegasus :: Pegasus (n.) A northen constellation near the vernal equinoctial point. Its three brightest stars, with the brightest star of Andromeda, form the square of Pegasus..

Pegasus :: Pegasus (n.) A genus of small fishes, having large pectoral fins, and the body covered with hard, bony plates. Several species are known from the East Indies and China..

Perigastric :: Perigastric (a.) Surrounding the stomach; -- applied to the body cavity of Bryozoa and various other Invertebrata.

Pneumogastric :: Pneumogastric (a.) Of or pertaining to the lungs and the stomach.

Pneumogastric :: Pneumogastric (n.) The pneumogastric nerve.

Polygastrian :: Polygastrian (n.) One of the Polygastrica.

Polygastric :: Polygastric (a.) Having several bellies; -- applied to muscles which are made up of several bellies separated by short tendons.

Polygastric :: Polygastric (a.) Pertaining to the Polygastrica.

Polygastric :: Polygastric (n.) One of the Polygastrica.

Polygastrica :: Polygastrica (n. pl.) The Infusoria.

Pulmogasteropoda :: Pulmogasteropoda (n. pl.) Same as Pulmonata.

Sagas :: Sagas (pl. ) of Sag.

Sargasso :: Sargasso (n.) The gulf weed. See under Gulf.

Sargassum :: Sargassum (n.) A genus of algae including the gulf weed.

Solenogastra :: Solenogastra (n. pl.) An order of lowly organized Mollusca belonging to the Isopleura. A narrow groove takes the place of the foot of other gastropods.

Stargaser :: Starfish (n.) The dollar fish, or butterfish..

Stargaser :: Stargaser (n.) One who gazes at the stars; an astrologer; sometimes, in derision or contempt, an astronomer..

Stargasing :: Stargaser (n.) Any one of several species of spiny-rayed marine fishes belonging to Uranoscopus, Astroscopus, and allied genera, of the family Uranoscopidae. The common species of the Eastern United States are Astroscopus anoplus, and A. guttatus. So called from the position of the eyes, which look directly upward..

Stargasing :: Stargasing (n.) The act or practice of observing the stars with attention; contemplation of the stars as connected with astrology or astronomy.

Stomatogastric :: Stomatode (n.) One of the Stomatoda.

Theologaster :: Theologaster (n.) A pretender or quack in theology.

Togas :: Togas (pl. ) of Tog.

Trigastric :: Trigastric (a.) Having three bellies; -- said of a muscle.

Urogastric :: Urogastric (a.) Behind the stomach; -- said of two lobes of the carapace of certain crustaceans.

Water Gas :: Water gas () See under Gas.

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