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Polyangium
- noun - type genus of the family Polyangiaceae: myxobacteria with rounded fruiting bodies enclosed in a membrane
Polyanthus
- noun - florists' primroses; considered a complex hybrid derived from oxlip, cowslip, and common primrose
Porringers
- noun - a shallow metal bowl (usually with a handle); "the child was eating pottage from a porringer"
Portending
- verb - indicate by signs; "These signs bode bad news"
Portension
- - The act of foreshowing; foreboding.
Portentive
- - Presaging; foreshadowing.
Portentous
- adjective - boding
- of momentous or ominous significance; "such a portentous...monster raised all my curiosity"- Herman Melville; "a prodigious vision"
- Ominous fateful
- ominously prophetic
- puffed up with vanity; "a grandiloquent and boastful manner"; "overblown oratory"; "a pompous speech"; "pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey"- Newsweek
Pothunters
- noun - a nonprofessional archeologist
- someone who hunts for food (not for sport)
- someone who participates in contests in order to collect trophies