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Meanings of Perish:

verb

Die, especially in a violent or sudden way.

Usage examples:

A great part of his army perished of hunger and disease

Meanings of Perishable:

adjective

(especially of food) likely to decay or go bad quickly.

Usage examples:

The storage of perishable foods

noun

Things, especially foodstuffs, likely to decay or go bad quickly.

Usage examples:

The shipment was delivered eventually though some of the perishables had gone off

Meanings of Perishables:

noun

Things, especially foodstuffs, likely to decay or go bad quickly.

Usage examples:

The shipment was delivered eventually though some of the perishables had gone off

adjective

(especially of food) likely to decay or go bad quickly.

Usage examples:

The storage of perishable foods

Meanings of Perishably:

adverb

In a perishable manner, by being perishable, so as to be liable to perish.

Meanings of Perished:

verb

Die, especially in a violent or sudden way.

Usage examples:

A great part of his army perished of hunger and disease

adjective

Extremely cold

Usage examples:

Her hands were perished., i'm perished with cold.

Meanings of Perisher:

noun

A mischievous or awkward person, especially a child.

Usage examples:

Some pushy little perisher

Meanings of Perishers:

noun

A mischievous or awkward person, especially a child.

Usage examples:

Some pushy little perisher

Meanings of Perishes:

verb

Die, especially in a violent or sudden way.

Usage examples:

A great part of his army perished of hunger and disease

Meanings of Perishing:

adjective

Used for emphasis or to express annoyance.

Usage examples:

I could murder that perishing kid!

verb

Die, especially in a violent or sudden way.

Usage examples:

A great part of his army perished of hunger and disease

Meanings of Perishment:

noun

Destruction, damage, loss; downfall.

Meanings of Perisomal:

adjective

= perisomatic .

Meanings of Perisomatic:

adjective

Of or relating to the body wall of an echinoderm.

Meanings of Perisperm:

noun

(in some seeds) a mass of nutritive material outside the embryo sac.

Usage examples:

In cucumber, muskmelon, and other seeds, a thin perisperm-endosperm envelope completely encloses th…

Meanings of Perispermal:

adjective

= perispermic .

Meanings of Perispermic:

adjective

Of, relating to, or having perisperm.

Meanings of Perispherical:

adjective

Almost circular.

Meanings of Perisplenic:

adjective

Situated or occurring around the spleen.

Meanings of Perisplenitis:

noun

Inflammation of the peritoneum covering the spleen; an instance of this.

Meanings of Perispomenon:

noun

A word having a circumflex accent on the last syllable. compare "perispome", properispome , properispomenon .

adjective

Having a circumflex accent on the last syllable. compare "perispome", properispome , properispomenon .

Meanings of Perispore:

noun

In early use: †a structure enclosing a group of spores, especially in an alga; a sporangium (obsolete). later: the outermost layer of the spore wall, or layer outside the spore wall, especially in ferns and mosses.

Meanings of Perissodactyl:

noun

A mammal of the order perissodactyla, such as a horse or rhinoceros.

Usage examples:

Both the perissodactyls and artiodactyls underwent a period of rapid evolution during the miocene.

adjective

Relating to or denoting perissodactyls.

Usage examples:

Most perissodactyl lineages went extinct in the late eocene or oligocene.

Meanings of Perissodactyla:

plural noun

An order of mammals that comprises the odd-toed ungulates.

Usage examples:

‘odd-toed’ or ‘odd-hoofed’ mammals make up the perissodactyla.

Meanings of Perissology:

noun

The use of more words than are necessary to convey meaning.

Meanings of Peristalith:

noun

A ring or row of standing stones surrounding a burial mound, cairn, etc.

Meanings of Peristalsis:

noun

The involuntary constriction and relaxation of the muscles of the intestine or another canal, creating wave-like movements that push the contents of the canal forward.

Usage examples:

Yoga helps your body reabsorb and expel gas by stimulating peristalsis, the muscle contractions tha…