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Pyroxyline
– definition :
- (noun)
- highly flammable nitrocellulose used in making collodion and plastics and lacquers (context:substance)
Python variegatus
– definition :
- (noun)
- Australian python with a variegated pattern on its back (context:animal)
Pyromaniac
– definition :
- (noun)
- a person with a mania for setting things on fire (context:person)
Pyrrophyta
– definition :
- (noun)
- a division of lower plants comprising unicellular and biflagellate algae that form starchy compounds (context:animal)
Pyrophyllite
– definition :
- (noun)
- a white or greenish aluminum silicate mineral (resembles talc) (context:substance)
Pythiaceae
– definition :
- (noun)
- fungi having sporangia usually borne successively and singly at the tips of branching sporangiophores (context:plant)
Pyrrhic
– definition :
- (adjective)
- of or relating to or resembling Pyrrhus or his exploits (especially his sustaining staggering losses in order to defeat the Romans) (context:pert)
- of or relating to or containing a metrical foot of two unstressed syllables (context:pert)
- of or relating to a war dance of ancient Greece (context:pert)
- (noun)
- an ancient Greek dance imitating the motions of warfare (context:act)
- a metrical unit with unstressed-unstressed syllables (context:communication)
– Sample : “pyrrhic”
- a Pyrrhic victory
- pyrrhic dance movements
- pyrrhic verses
Pythoness
– definition :
- (noun)
- (Greek mythology) the priestess of Apollo at Delphi who transmitted the oracles (context:person)
- a witch with powers of divination (context:person)
Pyrometer
– definition :
- (noun)
- a thermometer designed to measure high temperatures (context:artifact)
Pyrrosia
– definition :
- (noun)
- epiphytic or lithophytic or terrestrial ferns of tropical Old World (context:plant)
