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Palinurus
- noun - type genus of the family Palinuridae
Palm Tree
- noun - any plant of the family Palmae having an unbranched trunk crowned by large pinnate or palmate leaves
Paloverde
- noun - a thorny shrub of the genus Cercidium that grows in dry parts of the southwestern United States and adjacent Mexico; has smooth light green bark and racemes of yellow flowers and small leaves
Palpebral
- - Of or pertaining to the eyelids.
Palpebras
- noun - either of two folds of skin that can be moved to cover or open the eye; "his lids would stay open no longer"
Palustral
- - Of or pertaining to a bog or marsh; boggy.
Panegyric
- adjective - a formal expression of praise
- formally expressing praise
Panegyris
- - A festival; a public assembly.
Panspermy
- - The doctrine of the widespread distribution of germs, from which under favorable circumstances bacteria, vibrios, etc., may develop. (b) The doctrine that all organisms must come from living parents; biogenesis; -- the opposite of spontaneous generation. (c) The theory that life on earth originated from spores or germs that evolved elsewhere in the uiniverse; -- in contradistinction to the theory that life evolved on earth from inanimate matter. This theory, originally suggested by S. Arrhenius in 1907, is sometimes advanced by those who feel that the time required for evolution of life is too long for life to have evolved on Earth from inanimate matter.