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- English Word Pulvillus Definition One of the minute cushions on the feet of certain insects.
- English Word Pulvinar Definition A prominence on the posterior part of the thalamus of the human brain.
- English Word Pulvinate Definition Alt. of Pulvinated
- English Word Pulvinated Definition Curved convexly or swelled; as, a pulvinated frieze.
- English Word Pulvinated Definition Having the form of a cushion.
- English Word Pulvinic Definition Pertaining to, or designating, an acid obtained by the decomposition of vulpinic acid, as a white crystalline substance.
- English Word Pulvinuli Definition of Pulvinulus
- English Word Pulvinulus Definition Same as Pulvillus.
- English Word Puma Definition A large American carnivore (Felis concolor), found from Canada to Patagonia, especially among the mountains. Its color is tawny, or brownish yellow, without spots or stripes. Called also catamount, cougar, American lion, mountain lion, and panther or painter.
- English Word Pume Definition A stint.
- English Word Pumicate Definition To make smooth with pumice.
- English Word Pumicated Definition of Pumicate
- English Word Pumicating Definition of Pumicate
- English Word Pumice Definition A very light porous volcanic scoria, usually of a gray color, the pores of which are capillary and parallel, giving it a fibrous structure. It is supposed to be produced by the disengagement of watery vapor without liquid or plastic lava. It is much used, esp. in the form of powder, for smoothing and polishing. Called also pumice stone.
- English Word Pumice stone Definition Same as Pumice.
- English Word Pumiced Definition Affected with a kind of chronic laminitis in which there is a growth of soft spongy horn between the coffin bone and the hoof wall. The disease is called pumiced foot, or pumice foot.
- English Word Pumiceous Definition Of or pertaining to pumice; resembling pumice.
- English Word Pumiciform Definition Resembling, or having the structure of, pumice.
- English Word Pummace Definition Same as Pomace.
- English Word Pummel Definition Same as Pommel.