English words starting with pt

Meanings of Pt:

abbreviation

Part.

Usage examples:

Pt 1 of the consumer protection act 1987

noun

A unit of liquid or dry capacity equal to one eighth of a gallon, in britain equal to 0.568 litre and in the us equal to 0.473 litre (for liquid measure) or 0.551 litre (for dry measure).

The chemical element platinum.

Meanings of Pta:

abbreviation

Parent–teacher association.

noun

Abbreviation for parent-teacher association

Meanings of Ptarmigan:

noun

A northern grouse of mountainous and arctic regions, with feathered legs and feet and plumage that typically changes to white in winter.

Usage examples:

Most game birds are also galliforms, including grouse, partridges, pheasants, quails, ptarmigans, a…

Meanings of Ptarmigans:

noun

A northern grouse of mountainous and arctic regions, with feathered legs and feet and plumage that typically changes to white in winter.

Usage examples:

Most game birds are also galliforms, including grouse, partridges, pheasants, quails, ptarmigans, a…

Meanings of Pte:

abbreviation

Private (in the army).

Meanings of Ptenoglossa:

adjective

Of the radula of a gastropod: having no median teeth but a large number of lateral teeth resembling the barbs of a feather. of a gastropod: having such a radula; belonging to a taxon ptenoglossa so characterized (variously ranked between superfamily and order).

Meanings of Ptenoglossate:

adjective

Of the radula of a gastropod: having no median teeth but a large number of lateral teeth resembling the barbs of a feather. of a gastropod: having such a radula; belonging to a taxon ptenoglossa so characterized (variously ranked between superfamily and order).

Meanings of Pteranodon:

noun

A large tailless pterosaur of the cretaceous period, with a long toothless beak, a long bony crest, and a wingspan of up to 7 m.

Usage examples:

The breast-bone of pteranodon was relatively small, restricting the size of flight muscles, so pres…

Meanings of Pteranodont:

noun

A large tailless pterosaur of the family pteranodontidae, having a long toothless beak; especially one of the genus pteranodon.

Meanings of Pteraspid:

noun

An armoured, jawless fossil fish (ostracoderm) of the family pteraspididae (formerly pteraspidae), found in rocks of the silurian and devonian periods.

adjective

Of, relating to, or characteristic of the family pteraspididae.

Meanings of Pteraspis:

noun

A genus of armoured jawless fossil fishes (ostracoderms) of the lower devonian with the anterior end enclosed by a shield of bony plates; a fish of this genus.

Meanings of Pterichthys:

noun

A former genus of placoderm fishes of the devonian period (now called pterychthyodes) having wing-like pectoral appendages encased in bony plates; a fish of this genus.

Meanings of Pteridoid:

adjective

Of a plant: (originally) †belonging or allied to the ferns (obsolete); (now) specifically belonging to the subfamily pteridoideae (family pteridaceae).

noun

A fern, especially one belonging to the subfamily pteridoideae.

Meanings of Pteridology:

noun

The study of ferns and related plants.

Usage examples:

His fields of interest include systematic botany, speciation, and pteridology.

Meanings of Pteridophyta:

plural noun

A division of flowerless green plants that comprises the ferns and their relatives.

Usage examples:

Consider the ‘pteridophyta’ (vascular plants that reproduce by spores) are they a monophyletic grou…

Meanings of Pteridophyte:

noun

A flowerless green plant of the division pteridophyte, which comprises the ferns and their relatives.

Usage examples:

H. potonié first hypothesized the existence of a group of such transitional plants between pteridop…

Meanings of Pteridophytes:

noun

A flowerless green plant of the division pteridophyte, which comprises the ferns and their relatives.

Usage examples:

H. potonié first hypothesized the existence of a group of such transitional plants between pteridop…

Meanings of Pteridophytic:

adjective

Belonging or relating to the pteridophyta.

Meanings of Pteridosperm:

noun

A fossil plant which is intermediate between the ferns and seed-bearing plants, dying out in the triassic period.

Usage examples:

The idea that cycads stem from carboniferous so-called pteridosperms (‘seed ferns’ or seed plants w…

Meanings of Pteridospermous:

adjective

Of, or relating to,or characteristic of a pteridosperm.

Meanings of Pterin:

noun

A substituted derivative of pteridine; especially any of a class of these compounds which occur naturally as insect pigments.

Meanings of Pterins:

noun

A substituted derivative of pteridine; especially any of a class of these compounds which occur naturally as insect pigments.

Meanings of Pterion:

noun

The region of the side of the skull where the sutures between the sphenoid, parietal, frontal, and temporal bones are located, typically arranged in a pattern resembling the letter h.

Meanings of Pteris:

noun

Originally: †bracken, pteridium aquilinum (formerly pteris aquilina) (obsolete). in later use (in form pteris): a genus of ferns, now comprising largely tropical and subtropical species but formerly including bracken; (also in form pteris) a fern of this genus (also "pteris fern").

Meanings of Pterobranchiate:

adjective

Pterobranch.