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Patulous
- - Open; expanded; slightly spreading; having the parts loose or dispersed; as, a patulous calyx; a patulous cluster of flowers.
Pavilion
- noun - large and often sumptuous tent
Paxillus
- - One of a peculiar kind of spines covering the surface of certain starfishes. They are pillarlike, with a flattened summit which is covered with minute spinules or granules. See Illustration in Appendix.
Payslips
- noun - a slip of paper included with your pay that records how much money you have earned and how much tax or insurance etc. has been taken out
Pearlash
- - A white amorphous or granular substance which consists principally of potassium carbonate, and has a strong alkaline reaction. It is obtained by lixiviating wood ashes, and evaporating the lye, and has been an important source of potassium compounds. It is used in making soap, glass, etc.
Pearlers
- noun - a diver who searches for molluscs containing pearls
Pearlier
- adjective - of a white the color of pearls
Pearlies
- noun - informal terms for a human `tooth'
Pearling
- verb - gather pearls, from oysters in the ocean
Pearlite
- noun - a lamellar mixture of cementite and ferrite formed during the cooling of austenite; a constituent of steel and cast iron