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Prostrates
- verb - get into a prostrate position, as in submission
- render helpless or defenseless; "They prostrated the enemy"
- throw down flat, as on the ground; "She prostrated herself with frustration"
Protagoras
- unknown - Pre-Socratic Greek philosopher, named as one of the sophists by Plato
Protamines
- noun - a simple protein found in fish sperm; rich in arginine; simpler in composition than globulin or albumin; counteracts the anticoagulant effect of heparin
Protandric
- - Having male sexual organs while young, and female organs later in life.
Protanopia
- noun - dichromacy characterized by lowered sensitivity to long wavelengths of light resulting in an inability to distinguish red and purplish blue
Protanopic
- adjective - inability to see the color red or to distinguish red and bluish-green
Proteaceae
- noun - large family of Australian and South African shrubs and trees with leathery leaves and clustered mostly tetramerous flowers; constitutes the order Proteales
Protecting
- verb - shield from danger, injury, destruction, or damage; "Weatherbeater protects your roof from the rain"
- shielding (or designed to shield) against harm or discomfort; "the protecting blanket of snow"; "a protecting alibi"
- use tariffs to favor domestic industry
Protection
- noun - a covering that is intend to protect from damage or injury; "they had no protection from the fallout"; "wax provided protection for the floors"
- defense against financial failure; financial independence; "his pension gave him security in his old age"; "insurance provided protection against loss of wages due to illness"
- kindly endorsement and guidance; "the tournament was held under the auspices of the city council"
- payment extorted by gangsters on threat of violence; "every store in the neighborhood had to pay him protection"
- the activity of protecting someone or something; "the witnesses demanded police protection"
- the condition of being protected; "they were huddled together for protection"; "he enjoyed a sense of peace and protection in his new home"
- the imposition of duties or quotas on imports in order to protect domestic industry against foreign competition; "he made trade protection a plank in the party platform"
Protective
- adjective - (usually followed by `of') solicitously caring or mindful; "protective of his reputation"
- intended or adapted to afford protection of some kind; "a protective covering"; "the use of protective masks and equipment"; "protective coatings"; "kept the drunken sailor in protective custody"; "animals with protective coloring"; "protective tariffs"
- showing care; "a protective mother"