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Orrisroots
- noun - fragrant rootstock of various irises especially Florentine iris; used in perfumes and medicines
Outperform
- verb - be or do something to a greater degree;
Palmerworm
- - Any hairy caterpillar which appears in great numbers, devouring herbage, and wandering about like a palmer. The name is applied also to other voracious insects. Joel. i. 4. (b) In America, the larva of any one of several moths, which destroys the foliage of fruit and forest trees, esp. the larva of Ypsolophus pometellus, which sometimes appears in vast numbers.
Paratroops
- noun - infantry trained and equipped to parachute
Peckerwood
- noun - bird with strong claws and a stiff tail adapted for climbing and a hard chisel-like bill for boring into wood for insects
Peppercorn
- noun - pungent seasoning from the berry of the common pepper plant of East India; use whole or ground
- Trifling, minimal such as as peppercorn rental etc
Pepperwood
- noun - Pacific coast tree having aromatic foliage and small umbellate flowers followed by olivelike fruit; yields a hard tough wood
Pepperwort
- noun - annual herb used as salad green and garnish
- any of several water ferns of the genus Marsilea having four leaflets
Percursory
- - Running over slightly or in haste; cursory.