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Polyneme
- - Any one of numerous species of tropical food fishes of the family Polynemid. They have several slender filaments, often very long, below the pectoral fin. Some of them yield isinglass of good quality. Called also threadfish.
Polypide
- - One of the ordinary zooids of the Bryozoa.
Polypite
- - One of the feeding zooids, or polyps, of a coral, hydroid, or siphonophore; a hydranth. See Illust. of Campanularian. (b) Sometimes, the manubrium of a hydroid medusa.
Polypode
- - A plant of the genus Polypodium; polypody.
Polypore
- noun - woody pore fungi; any fungus of the family Polyporaceae or family Boletaceae having the spore-bearing surface within tubes or pores; the fruiting bodies are usually woody at maturity and persistent
Polytype
- - A cast, or facsimile copy, of an engraved block, matter in type, etc.; as, a polytype in relief
Pomarine
- - Having the nostril covered with a scale.
Pommette
- - Having two balls or protuberances at each end; -- said of a cross.
Pongidae
- noun - usually considered as comprising orangutans; gorillas; chimpanzees; and sometimes gibbons