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- English Word Ptolemaist Definition One who accepts the astronomical system of Ptolemy.
- English Word Ptomaine Definition One of a class of animal bases or alkaloids formed in the putrefaction of various kinds of albuminous matter, and closely related to the vegetable alkaloids; a cadaveric poison. The ptomaines, as a class, have their origin in dead matter, by which they are to be distinguished from the leucomaines.
- English Word Ptosis Definition Drooping of the upper eyelid, produced by paralysis of its levator muscle.
- English Word Ptyalin Definition An unorganized amylolytic ferment, on enzyme, present in human mixed saliva and in the saliva of some animals.
- English Word Ptyalism Definition Salivation, or an excessive flow of saliva.
- English Word Ptyalogogue Definition A ptysmagogue.
- English Word Ptysmagogue Definition A medicine that promotes the discharge of saliva.
- English Word Ptyxis Definition The way in which a leaf is sometimes folded in the bud.
- English Word Pubble Definition Puffed out, pursy; pudgy; fat.
- English Word Puberal Definition Of or pertaining to puberty.
- English Word Puberty Definition The earliest age at which persons are capable of begetting or bearing children, usually considered, in temperate climates, to be about fourteen years in males and twelve in females.
- English Word Puberty Definition The period when a plant first bears flowers.
- English Word Puberulent Definition Very minutely downy.
- English Word Pubes Definition The hair which appears upon the lower part of the hypogastric region at the age of puberty.
- English Word Pubes Definition Hence (as more commonly used), the lower part of the hypogastric region; the pubic region.
- English Word Pubes Definition The down of plants; a downy or villous substance which grows on plants; pubescence.
- English Word Pubescence Definition The quality or state of being pubescent, or of having arrived at puberty.
- English Word Pubescence Definition A covering of soft short hairs, or down, as one some plants and insects; also, the state of being so covered.
- English Word Pubescency Definition Pubescence.
- English Word Pubescent Definition Arrived at puberty.