polyphemus moth
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~ very large yellowish-brown American silkworm moth with large eyespots on hind wings; larvae feed on fruit and shade trees
polyphone
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~ a letter that has two or more pronunciations; "`c' is a polyphone because it is pronounced like `k' in `car' but like `s' in `cell'"
polyphonic letter
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~ a letter that has two or more pronunciations; "`c' is a polyphone because it is pronounced like `k' in `car' but like `s' in `cell'"
polyphonic music
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~ music arranged in parts for several voices or instruments
polyphony
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~ music arranged in parts for several voices or instruments
polyphosphate
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~ a salt or ester of polyphosphoric acid
polyphosphoric acid
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~ a series of oxyacids of phosphorus
Polyplacophora
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~ small class of marine mollusks comprising the chitons; sometimes considered an order of the subclass Amphineura
polyplacophore
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~ primitive elongated bilaterally symmetrical marine mollusk having a mantle covered with eight calcareous plates
polyploid
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~ (genetics) an organism or cell having more than twice the haploid number of chromosomes
polyploidy
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~ the condition of being polyploid
polypodiaceae
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~ ferns: a large family that in some classification systems has been subdivided into several families (including Aspleniaceae and Blechnaceae and Davalliaceae and Dennstaedtiaceae and Dryopteridaceae and Oleandraceae and Pteridaceae)
Polypodiales
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~ true (leptosporangiate) ferns
Polypodium polypodioides
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~ fern growing on rocks or tree trunks and having fronds greyish and scurfy below; Americas and South Africa
Polypodium glycyrrhiza
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~ fern having rootstock of a sweetish flavor
Polypodium aureum
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~ tropical American fern with brown scaly rhizomes cultivated for its large deeply lobed deep bluish-green fronds; sometimes placed in genus Polypodium
Polypodium
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~ a genus of ferns belonging to the family Polypodiaceae and having rounded naked sori
polypody
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~ any of numerous ferns of the genus Polypodium
Polyporaceae
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~ fungi that become corky or woody with age, often forming shelflike growths on trees
polypore
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~ woody pore fungi; any fungus of the family Polyporaceae or family Boletaceae having the spore-bearing surface within tubes or pores; the fruiting bodies are usually woody at maturity and persistent