psilosis
— Noun
– English
~ a chronic disorder that occurs in tropical and non-tropical forms and in both children and adults; nutrients are not absorbed; symptoms include foul-smelling diarrhea and emaciation
Psilotaceae
— Noun
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~ small family of lower ferns having nearly naked stems and minute scalelike leaves
Psilotales
— Noun
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~ lower vascular plants having dichotomously branched sporophyte divided into aerial shoot and rhizome and lacking true roots
Psilotatae
— Noun
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~ whisk ferns; comprising the family Psilotaceae or Psilotatae: vascular plants with no roots, partial if any leaf differentiation, and rudimentary spore sacs
Psilotum nudum
— Noun
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~ pantropical epiphytic or terrestrial whisk fern with usually dull yellow branches and minute leaves; America; Japan; Australia
Psilotum
— Noun
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~ type genus of the Psilotaceae
Psithyrus
— Noun
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~ a large bee that resembles the bumblebee but lacks pollen-collecting apparatus and a worker caste
Psittacidae
— Noun
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~ coextensive with the order Psittaciformes
Psittaciformes
— Noun
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~ an order of birds including parrots and amazons and cockatoos and lorikeets and lories and macaws and parakeets
psittacosaur
— Noun
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~ primitive dinosaur actually lacking horns and having only the beginning of a frill; long hind limbs and short forelimbs; may have been bipedal
psittacosaurus
— Noun
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~ primitive dinosaur actually lacking horns and having only the beginning of a frill; long hind limbs and short forelimbs; may have been bipedal
psittacosis
— Noun
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~ infectious disease of birds
psittacosis
— Noun
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~ an atypical pneumonia caused by a rickettsia microorganism and transmitted to humans from infected birds
Psittacula
— Noun
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~ a genus of Psittacidae