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Polynya
- noun - a stretch of open water surrounded by ice (especially in Arctic seas)
Polyoma
- noun - a virus the can initiate various kinds of tumors in mice
Polyzoa
- noun - marine or freshwater animals that form colonies of zooids
- sessile aquatic animal forming mossy colonies of small polyps each having a curved or circular ridge bearing tentacles; attach to stones or seaweed and reproduce by budding
Porpita
- - A genus of bright-colored Siphonophora found floating in the warmer parts of the ocean. The individuals are round and disk-shaped, with a large zooid in the center of the under side, surrounded by smaller nutritive and reproductive zooids, and by slender dactylozooids near the margin. The disk contains a central float, or pneumatocyst.
Potassa
- - Potassium oxide. [Obs.] (b) Potassium hydroxide, commonly called caustic potash.
Precava
- noun - receives blood from the head and arms and chest and empties into the right atrium of the heart; formed from the azygos and both brachiocephalic veins
Primula
- noun - any of numerous short-stemmed plants of the genus Primula having tufted basal leaves and showy flowers clustered in umbels or heads
Prosoma
- - The anterior of the body of an animal, as of a cephalopod; the thorax of an arthropod.
Protura
- noun - minute wingless arthropods: telsontails