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Pederero
- - A term formerly applied to a short piece of chambered ordnance.
Pedestal
- noun -
- A bone in the sternum of a dromedary
- a position of great esteem (and supposed superiority); "they put him on a pedestal"
- an architectural support or base (as for a column or statue)
Pelecoid
- - A figure, somewhat hatched-shaped, bounded by a semicircle and two inverted quadrants, and equal in area to the square ABCD inclosed by the chords of the four quadrants.
Pelerine
- - A woman's cape; especially, a fur cape that is longer in front than behind.
Penelope
- noun - (Greek mythology) the wife of Odysseus and a symbol of devotion and fidelity; for 10 years while Odysseus fought the Trojan War she resisted numerous suitors until Odysseus returned and killed them
- a genus of guans (turkey-like arboreal birds valued as game and food birds)
Peperino
- - A volcanic rock, formed by the cementing together of sand, scoria, cinders, etc.
Perentie
- unknown - A very large monitor lizard (Varanus giganteus) found in arid regions of Australia.
Pereskia
- noun - genus of tropical American shrubby trees and woody climbers having slender branches with broad flat leaves and large panicles of flowers
Petechia
- noun - a minute red or purple spot on the surface of the skin as the result of tiny hemorrhages of blood vessels in the skin (as in typhoid fever)