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Packet Boat
- noun - a boat for carrying mail
Paddymelons
- noun - small reddish-brown wallabies of scrubby areas of Australia and New Guinea
Paginations
- noun - the system of numbering pages
Paletiology
- noun - the explanation of past events in terms of scientific causes (as geological causes)
Palliations
- noun - easing the severity of a pain or a disease without removing the cause
- to act in such a way as to cause an offense to seem less serious
Palolo Worm
- - A polystome worm (Palolo viridis) that burrows in the coral reefs of certain of the Pacific Islands. A little before the last quarter of the moon in October and November, they swarm in vast numbers at the surface of the sea for breeding, and are gathered and highly esteemed as food by the natives. An allied species inhabits the tropical Atlantic and swarms in June or July.
Pampiniform
- - In the form of tendrils; -- applied especially to the spermatic and ovarian veins.
Panduriform
- adjective - (of a leaf shape) having rounded ends and a contracted center