Nouns starting with A

• Antheraea polyphemus — Noun – English ～ very large yellowish-brown American silkworm moth with large eyespots on hind wings; larvae feed on fruit and shade trees
• Alsophila pometaria — Noun – English ～ North American moth with grey-winged males and wingless females; larvae are fall cankerworms
• Aphis pomi — Noun – English ～ bright green aphid; feeds on and causes curling of apple leaves
• Armillaria ponderosa — Noun – English ～ a large white mushroom that develops brown stains as it ages; gills are white; odor is spicy and aromatic; collected commercially for oriental cooking the Pacific Northwest
• Alice-Josephine Pons — Noun – English ～ United States coloratura soprano (born in France) (1904-1976)
• Artemis pontica — Noun – English ～ European wormwood; minor source of absinthe
• Alexander Pope — Noun – English ～ English poet and satirist (1688-1744)
• aspen poplar — Noun – English ～ a poplar that is widely cultivated in the United States; has white bark and leaves with whitish undersurfaces
• arteria poplitea — Noun – English ～ a continuation of the femoral artery that branches to supply the legs and feet
• arctic poppy — Noun – English ～ subarctic perennial poppy of both hemispheres having fragrant white or yellow to orange or peach flowers
• Aleksandr Porfirevich Borodin — Noun – English ～ Russian composer (1833-1887)
• Allium porrum — Noun – English ～ plant having a large slender white bulb and flat overlapping dark green leaves; used in cooking; believed derived from the wild Allium ampeloprasum
• angular position — Noun – English ～ relation by which any position with respect to any other position is established
• actual possession — Noun – English ～ (law) immediate and direct physical control over property
• air potato — Noun – English ～ yam of tropical Africa and Asia cultivated for it large tubers
• action potential — Noun – English ～ the local voltage change across the cell wall as a nerve impulse is transmitted
• apothecaries' pound — Noun – English ～ an apothecary weight equal to 12 ounces or 373.242 grams
• aspirin powder — Noun – English ～ a powdered form of aspirin
• air power — Noun – English ～ the aggregation of a country's military aircraft
• acoustic power — Noun – English ～ the physical intensity of sound

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