Nouns starting with P

• polyphemus moth — Noun – English ～ very large yellowish-brown American silkworm moth with large eyespots on hind wings; larvae feed on fruit and shade trees
• polyphone — Noun – English ～ 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 — Noun – English ～ 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 — Noun – English ～ music arranged in parts for several voices or instruments
• polyphony — Noun – English ～ music arranged in parts for several voices or instruments
• polyphosphate — Noun – English ～ a salt or ester of polyphosphoric acid
• polyphosphoric acid — Noun – English ～ a series of oxyacids of phosphorus
• Polyplacophora — Noun – English ～ small class of marine mollusks comprising the chitons; sometimes considered an order of the subclass Amphineura
• polyplacophore — Noun – English ～ primitive elongated bilaterally symmetrical marine mollusk having a mantle covered with eight calcareous plates
• polyploid — Noun – English ～ (genetics) an organism or cell having more than twice the haploid number of chromosomes
• polyploidy — Noun – English ～ the condition of being polyploid
• polypodiaceae — Noun – English ～ 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 — Noun – English ～ true (leptosporangiate) ferns
• Polypodium polypodioides — Noun – English ～ fern growing on rocks or tree trunks and having fronds greyish and scurfy below; Americas and South Africa
• Polypodium glycyrrhiza — Noun – English ～ fern having rootstock of a sweetish flavor
• Polypodium aureum — Noun – English ～ tropical American fern with brown scaly rhizomes cultivated for its large deeply lobed deep bluish-green fronds; sometimes placed in genus Polypodium
• Polypodium — Noun – English ～ a genus of ferns belonging to the family Polypodiaceae and having rounded naked sori
• polypody — Noun – English ～ any of numerous ferns of the genus Polypodium
• Polyporaceae — Noun – English ～ fungi that become corky or woody with age, often forming shelflike growths on trees
• polypore — Noun – English ～ 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

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