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Hapuku :: Hapuku (n.) A large and valuable food fish (Polyprion prognathus) of New Zealand. It sometimes weighs one hundred pounds or more.

Polyphonic :: Polyphonic (a.) Characterized by polyphony; as, Assyrian polyphonic characters..

Polyp :: Polyp (n.) Same as Anthozoa. See Anthozoa, Madreporaria, Hydroid..

Dialypetalous :: Dialypetalous (a.) Having separate petals; polypetalous.

Polypori :: Polypori (pl. ) of Polyporu.

Polyphony :: Polyphony (n.) Composition in mutually related, equally important parts which share the melody among them; contrapuntal composition; -- opposed to homophony, in which the melody is given to one part only, the others filling out the harmony. See Counterpoint..

Polypus :: Polypus (n.) A tumor, usually with a narrow base, somewhat resembling a pear, -- found in the nose, uterus, etc., and produced by hypertrophy of some portion of the mucous membrane..

Portulaca :: Portulaca (n.) A genus of polypetalous plants; also, any plant of the genus..

Polypite :: Polypite (n.) One of the feeding zooids, or polyps, of a coral, hydroid, or siphonophore; a hydranth. See Illust. of Campanularian..

Polypite :: Polypite (n.) A fossil coral.

Polyplastic :: Polyplastic (a.) Assuming, or having the power of assuming, many forms; as, a polyplastic element which does not preserve its original shape..

#NAME? :: -plastic () A combining form signifying developing, forming, growing; as, heteroplastic, monoplastic, polyplastic..

Polype :: Polype (n.) See Polyp.

Lithogenous :: Lithogenous (a.) Stone-producing; -- said of polyps which form coral.

Polypomedusae :: Polypomedusae (n. pl.) Same as Hydrozoa.

Thalamiflorous :: Thalamiflorous (a.) Bearing the stamens directly on the receptacle; -- said of a subclass of polypetalous dicotyledonous plants in the system of De Candolle.

Polypuses :: Polypuses (pl. ) of Polypu.

Polypoid :: Polypoid (a.) Like a polyp; having the nature of a polyp, but lacking the tentacles or other parts..

Amadou :: Amadou (n.) A spongy, combustible substance, prepared from fungus (Boletus and Polyporus) which grows on old trees; German tinder; punk. It has been employed as a styptic by surgeons, but its common use is as tinder, for which purpose it is prepared by soaking it in a strong solution of niter..

Person :: Person (n.) A shoot or bud of a plant; a polyp or zooid of the compound Hydrozoa Anthozoa, etc.; also, an individual, in the narrowest sense, among the higher animals..

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