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Phosphorite
- - A massive variety of apatite.
Phthalimide
- - An imido derivative of phthalic acid, obtained as a white crystalline substance, C6H4.(CO)2NH, which has itself (like succinimide) acid properties, and forms a series of salts. Cf. Imido acid, under Imido.
Phyllorhine
- - Of or pertaining to Phyllorhina and other related genera of bats that have a leaflike membrane around the nostrils.
Picket Line
- noun - a line of people acting as pickets
Piedmontite
- - A manganesian kind of epidote, from Piedmont. See Epidote.
Pilocarpine
- noun - cholinergic alkaloid used in eyedrops to treat glaucoma
Piperocaine
- noun - a compound used in the form of its hydrochloride as a local or spinal anesthetic
Platyrrhine
- adjective - hairy-faced arboreal monkeys having widely separated nostrils and long usually prehensile tails
- of or related to New World monkeys having nostrils far apart or to people with broad noses