Platoon :: Platoon (n.) Formerly, a body of men who fired together; also, a small square body of soldiers to strengthen the angles of a hollow square..

Platoon :: Platoon (n.) Now, in the United States service, half of a company..

Platt :: Platt (n.) See Lodge, n..

Plattdeutsch :: Plattdeutsch (n.) The modern dialects spoken in the north of Germany, taken collectively; modern Low German. See Low German, under German..

Platted :: Platted (imp. & p. p.) of Pla.

Platten :: Platten (a.) To flatten and make into sheets or plates; as, to platten cylinder glass..

Platter :: Platter (n.) One who plats or braids.

Platter :: Platter (n.) A large plate or shallow dish on which meat or other food is brought to the table.

Platter-faced :: Platter-faced (a.) Having a broad, flat face..

Platting :: Platting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pla.

Platting :: Platting (n.) Plaited strips or bark, cane, straw, etc., used for making hats or the like..

Platy :: Platy (a.) Like a plate; consisting of plates.

Platy- :: Platy- () A combining form from Gr. platy`s broad, wide, flat; as, platypus, platycephalous..

Platycephalic :: Platycephalic (a.) Alt. of Platycephalou.

Platycephalous :: Platycephalous (a.) Broad-headed.

Platycnemic :: Platycnemic (a.) Of, relating to, or characterized by, platycnemism..

Platycnemism :: Platycnemism (n.) Lateral flattening of the tibia.

Platycoelian :: Platycoelian (a.) Flat at the anterior and concave at the posterior end; -- said of the centra of the vertebrae of some extinct dinouaurs.

Platyelminthes :: Platyelminthes (n. pl.) A class of helminthes including the cestodes, or tapeworms, the trematodes, and the turbellarians. Called also flatworms..

Platyhelmia :: Platyhelmia (n. pl.) Same as Platyelminthes.

Platymeter :: Platymeter (n.) An apparatus for measuring the capacity of condensers, or the inductive capacity of dielectrics..

Platypod :: Platypod (n.) An animal having broad feet, or a broad foot..

Platypoda :: Platypoda (n. pl.) Same as Prosobranchiata.

Platyptera :: Platyptera (n. pl.) A division of Pseudoneuroptera including the species which have four broad, flat wings, as the termites, or white-ants, and the stone flies (Perla)..

Platypus :: Platypus (n.) The duck mole. See under Duck.

Platyrhine :: Platyrhine (a.) Having the nose broad; -- opposed to leptorhine.

Platyrhine :: Platyrhine (n.) One of the Platyrhini.

Platyrhini :: Platyrhini (n. pl.) A division of monkeys, including the American species, which have a broad nasal septum, thirty-six teeth, and usually a prehensile tail. See Monkey..

Ridgeplate :: Ridgeplate (n.) See Ridgepole.

Soleplate :: Soleplate (n.) A bedplate; as, the soleplate of a steam engine..

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