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Meanings of Polypody:

noun

A widely distributed fern which has stout scaly creeping rhizomes and remains green during the winter, growing on trees, walls, and stones, especially in limestone areas.

Usage examples:

Others are maidenhair spleenwort, two kinds of polypody, and walking fern.

Meanings of Polypoid:

adjective

Relating to or resembling a polyp or hydra.

Usage examples:

A polypoid colonial form

Meanings of Polypoidal:

adjective

= "polypoid".

Meanings of Polypore:

noun

A bracket fungus in which the spores are expelled through fine pores on the underside.

Usage examples:

See sulphur shelf and beefsteak fungus for the best-known edible examples; and polypores for some o…

Meanings of Polypores:

noun

A bracket fungus in which the spores are expelled through fine pores on the underside.

Usage examples:

See sulphur shelf and beefsteak fungus for the best-known edible examples; and polypores for some o…

Meanings of Polyporoid:

adjective

Resembling or related to fungi of the genus polyporus; belonging to the family polyporaceae.

Meanings of Polyporous:

adjective

Having, or characterized by having, many pores; especially (mycology) = polyporoid .

Meanings of Polyporus:

noun

A large, widely distributed genus of hymenomycetous fungi of the family polyporaceae, comprising chiefly bracket fungi growing on dead or living wood; (also polyporus) a fungus belonging to or formerly included in this genus.

Meanings of Polypose:

adjective

= "polypous".

Meanings of Polyposis:

noun

A condition characterized by the presence of numerous internal polyps, especially a hereditary disease ( familial adenomatous polyposis ) which affects the colon and in which the polyps may become malignant.

Meanings of Polypous:

adjective

(of a growth) resembling or in the form of a polyp.

Usage examples:

A polypous growth in the oesophagus

Meanings of Polypragmatic:

adjective

Busy or concerned with many affairs; (formerly) specifically overly concerned with the affairs of others, interfering, officious.

Meanings of Polypragmatism:

noun

Busyness or concern with many affairs; (formerly) specifically officiousness (now rare).

Meanings of Polypragmatist:

noun

A person who is busy or concerned with many affairs; (formerly) specifically a busybody.

Meanings of Polypragmon:

noun

A person concerned with many affairs; specifically an interfering or officious person, a busybody.

Meanings of Polypropylene:

noun

A synthetic resin which is a polymer of propylene, used chiefly for films, fibres, or moulding materials.

Usage examples:

High-impact polypropylene

Meanings of Polyprotic:

adjective

Of an acid: capable of donating more than one proton to a base; polybasic. also occasionally: (of a base) capable of accepting more than one proton from an acid.

Meanings of Polyprotodont:

adjective

Having or characterized by more than two incisor teeth in the lower jaw; especially designating the mainly carnivorous and insectivorous marsupials so characterized (sometimes classified in an order or suborder polyprotodontia).

noun

A polyprotodont marsupial.

Meanings of Polyps:

noun

A solitary or colonial sedentary form of a coelenterate such as a sea anemone, typically having a columnar body with the mouth uppermost surrounded by a ring of tentacles. in some species, polyps are a phase in the life cycle which alternates with a medusoid phase.

Usage examples:

A few, such as hydra, are solitary polyps that lack a medusoid stage.

Meanings of Polypsychic:

adjective

Having or involving multiple souls or spirits.

Meanings of Polypsychical:

adjective

= polypsychic .

Meanings of Polypsychism:

noun

The belief that one person may have multiple souls or spirits; the theory that the mind is composed of multiple psychic elements.

Meanings of Polypterid:

noun

A fish of the african freshwater family polypteridae, having an elongated body with hard, rhombic, ganoid scales, a dorsal fin composed of a series of spines each with a finlet attached, and primitive lungs enabling it to breathe air.

adjective

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

Meanings of Polypteroid:

noun

A member of a group of fishes that includes the polypterids.

Meanings of Polypterus:

noun

A genus of african freshwater fishes of the family polypteridae; (also polypterus) a fish of this genus; a bichir.