Name Report For First Name PETA:
PETA
First name PETA's origin is Native American. PETA means "blackfoot name meaning " golden eagle." petunia". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with PETA below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of peta.(Brown names are of the same origin (Native American) with PETA and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)
Rhymes with PETA - Names & Words
First Names Rhyming PETA
FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES PETA AS A WHOLE:
peta-gayeNAMES RHYMING WITH PETA (According to last letters):
Rhyming Names According to Last 3 Letters (eta) - Names That Ends with eta:
leta nasheeta alzbeta agneta almeta admeta aleta kineta rheta zeta vineeta amayeta antoaneta elisabeta georgeta margareta nicoleta voileta beta marjeta aneta antonieta areta arleta clareta cocheta coleta dorbeta eleta elisaveta elizaveta enriqueta greta julieta laqueta loleta loreta neta oleta seleta veta waneta yelysaveta zaneta akecheta reta nireta meleta melleta voleta fleta metaRhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (ta) - Names That Ends with ta:
aminata binata binta fanta ismitta nashita bixenta adsaluta bricta nantosuelta amista paharita serenata vlasta gjerta gusta alberta elberta hrothbeorhta fusberta atalanta baptista delta errita giancinta irta jocasta minta panagiota zyta gitta amrita anahita jaganmata jarita jivanta samvarta shanta sita vinata aletta annuziata antonietta battista benedetta brunetta concetta donataNAMES RHYMING WITH PETA (According to first letters):
Rhyming Names According to First 3 Letters (pet) - Names That Begins with pet:
pete peter peterka peterke peterson petiri petr petra petre petrica petrina petrine petron petronela petronilla petronille petrov petru petrus petuniaRhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (pe) - Names That Begins with pe:
peace peada peadar pearce pearroc pearson pedar pedra pedrine pedro peer peg pegasus pegeen peggy peigi peirce peisistratus pekar pekka pelagia peleus pelias pelicia pell pellam pellanor pellean pelleas pelles pellinore pelltun pelopia pelops pemphredo pemton penarddun penda pendaran pendewe pendragon penelope peneus penina peninah penleigh penley penn pennlea pennleah penny penrith penrod pensee penthea penthesilea pentheus penthia penton peony pepe pephredo pepik pepillo pepin pepita pepper pepperell peppi peppin per perahta perceval percival percy percyvelle perdix peredur peredurus peredwusNAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH PETA:
First Names which starts with 'p' and ends with 'a':
pabla pachu'a paciencia padma paella pahana pakuna pakwa palassa palba palmira paloma pamela pamuya pandara pandora panphila panthea panya paola paquita parnella parsa parthenia pascala pasclina pasha pastora patricia patrina patrizia paula paulita pavla paza pazia perfecta pesha phaedra phaethusa phedora pheodora phiala phila philana philberta philipinna philippa phillida phillina phillipa philomela philomena philomina philothea pia pierretta pietra pippa piroska pista pithasthana placida polikwaptiwa poloma polyhymnia polyxena portia posala powaqa pramlocha praza primavera priscilla priyana priyanka prudencia prunella puebla pura pureza purisima pyrena pyrrha pythiaEnglish Words Rhyming PETA
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES PETA AS A WHOLE:
| acropetal | adjective (a.) Developing from below towards the apex, or from the circumference towards the center; centripetal; -- said of certain inflorescence. |
| andropetalous | adjective (a.) Produced by the conversion of the stamens into petals, as double flowers, like the garden ranunculus. |
| anisopetalous | adjective (a.) Having unequal petals. |
| antipetalous | adjective (a.) Standing before a petal, as a stamen. |
| apetalous | adjective (a.) Having no petals, or flower leaves. [See Illust. under Anther]. |
| apetalousness | noun (n.) The state of being apetalous. |
| bipetalous | adjective (a.) Having two petals. |
| catapetalous | adjective (a.) Having the petals held together by stamens, which grow to their bases, as in the mallow. |
| centripetal | adjective (a.) Tending, or causing, to approach the center. |
| adjective (a.) Expanding first at the base of the inflorescence, and proceeding in order towards the summit. | |
| adjective (a.) Having the radicle turned toward the axis of the fruit, as some embryos. | |
| adjective (a.) Progressing by changes from the exterior of a thing toward its center; as, the centripetal calcification of a bone. |
| cerebripetal | adjective (a.) Applied to those nerve fibers which go from the spinal cord to the brain and so transfer sensations (centripetal impressions) from the exterior inwards. |
| dialypetalous | adjective (a.) Having separate petals; polypetalous. |
| dipetalous | adjective (a.) Having two petals; two-petaled. |
| enneapetalous | adjective (a.) Having nine petals, or flower leaves. |
| epipetalous | adjective (a.) Borne on the petals or corolla. |
| gamopetalous | adjective (a.) Having the petals united or joined so as to form a tube or cup; monopetalous. |
| hexapetalous | adjective (a.) Having six petals. |
| interpetalary | adjective (a.) Between the petals of a flower. |
| macropetalous | adjective (a.) Having long or large petals. |
| monopetalous | adjective (a.) Having only one petal, or the corolla in one piece, or composed of petals cohering so as to form a tube or bowl; gamopetalous. |
| nepeta | noun (n.) A genus of labiate plants, including the catnip and ground ivy. |
| octopetalous | adjective (a.) Having eight petals or flower leaves. |
| oligopetalous | adjective (a.) Having few petals. |
| oppositipetalous | adjective (a.) Placed in front of a petal. |
| parapetalous | adjective (a.) Growing by the side of a petal, as a stamen. |
| pentapetalous | adjective (a.) Having five petals, or flower leaves. |
| peripetalous | adjective (a.) Surrounding, or situated about, the petals. |
| petal | noun (n.) One of the leaves of the corolla, or the colored leaves of a flower. See Corolla, and Illust. of Flower. |
| noun (n.) One of the expanded ambulacra which form a rosette on the black of certain Echini. |
| petaled | adjective (a.) Having petals; as, a petaled flower; -- opposed to apetalous, and much used in compounds; as, one-petaled, three-petaled, etc. |
| petaliferous | adjective (a.) Bearing petals. |
| petaliform | adjective (a.) Having the form of a petal; petaloid; petal-shaped. |
| petaline | adjective (a.) Pertaining to a petal; attached to, or resembling, a petal. |
| petalism | noun (n.) A form of sentence among the ancient Syracusans by which they banished for five years a citizen suspected of having dangerous influence or ambition. It was similar to the ostracism in Athens; but olive leaves were used instead of shells for ballots. |
| petalite | noun (n.) A rare mineral, occurring crystallized and in cleavable masses, usually white, or nearly so, in color. It is a silicate of aluminia and lithia. |
| petalody | noun (n.) The metamorphosis of various floral organs, usually stamens, into petals. |
| petaloid | adjective (a.) Petaline. |
| petaloideous | adjective (a.) Having the whole or part of the perianth petaline. |
| petalosticha | noun (n. pl.) An order of Echini, including the irregular sea urchins, as the spatangoids. See Spatangoid. |
| petalous | adjective (a.) Having petals; petaled; -- opposed to apetalous. |
| petalum | noun (n.) A petal. |
| petar | noun (n.) See Petard. |
| petard | noun (n.) A case containing powder to be exploded, esp. a conical or cylindrical case of metal filled with powder and attached to a plank, to be exploded against and break down gates, barricades, drawbridges, etc. It has been superseded. |
| petardeer | noun (n.) Alt. of Petardier |
| petardier | noun (n.) One who managed a petard. |
| petasus | noun (n.) The winged cap of Mercury; also, a broad-brimmed, low-crowned hat worn by Greeks and Romans. |
| petaurist | noun (n.) Any flying marsupial of the genera Petaurus, Phalangista, Acrobata, and allied genera. See Flying mouse, under Flying, and Phalangister. |
| planipetalous | adjective (a.) Having flat petals. |
| polypetalous | adjective (a.) Consisting of, or having, several or many separate petals; as, a polypetalous corolla, flower, or plant. |
| sympetalous | adjective (a.) Having the petals united; gamopetalous. |
| tetrapetalous | adjective (a.) Containing four distinct petals, or flower leaves; as, a tetrapetalous corolla. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH PETA (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (eta) - English Words That Ends with eta:
| beta | noun (n.) The second letter of the Greek alphabet, B, /. See B, and cf. etymology of Alphabet. |
| excreta | noun (n. pl.) Matters to be excreted. |
| hyperotreta | noun (n. pl.) An order of marsipobranchs, including the Myxine or hagfish and the genus Bdellostoma. They have barbels around the mouth, one tooth on the plate, and a communication between the nasal aperture and the throat. See Hagfish. |
| keta | noun (n.) A small salmon (Oncorhynchus keta) of inferior value, which in the autumn runs up all the larger rivers between San Francisco and Kamchatka. |
| martineta | noun (n.) A species of tinamou (Calopezus elegans), having a long slender crest. |
| oligochaeta | noun (n. pl.) An order of Annelida which includes the earthworms and related species. |
| pallometa | noun (n.) A pompano. |
| peseta | noun (n.) A Spanish silver coin, and money of account, equal to about nineteen cents, and divided into 100 centesimos. |
| pieta | noun (n.) A representation of the dead Christ, attended by the Virgin Mary or by holy women and angels. |
| polychaeta | noun (n. pl.) One of the two principal groups of Chaetopoda. It includes those that have prominent parapodia and fascicles of setae. See Illust. under Parapodia. |
| seta | noun (n.) Any slender, more or less rigid, bristlelike organ or part; as the hairs of a caterpillar, the slender spines of a crustacean, the hairlike processes of a protozoan, the bristles or stiff hairs on the leaves of some plants, or the pedicel of the capsule of a moss. |
| noun (n.) One of the movable chitinous spines or hooks of an annelid. They usually arise in clusters from muscular capsules, and are used in locomotion and for defense. They are very diverse in form. | |
| noun (n.) One of the spinelike feathers at the base of the bill of certain birds. |
| spirochaeta | noun (n.) Alt. of Spirochaete |
| taffeta | noun (n.) Alt. of Taffety |
| theta | noun (n.) A letter of the Greek alphabet corresponding to th in English; -- sometimes called the unlucky letter, from being used by the judges on their ballots in passing condemnation on a prisoner, it being the first letter of the Greek qa`natos, death. |
| zeta | noun (n.) A Greek letter corresponding to our z. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH PETA (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (pet) - Words That Begins with pet:
| pet | noun (n.) A cade lamb; a lamb brought up by hand. |
| noun (n.) Any person or animal especially cherished and indulged; a fondling; a darling; often, a favorite child. | |
| noun (n.) A slight fit of peevishness or fretfulness. | |
| adjective (a.) Petted; indulged; admired; cherished; as, a pet child; a pet lamb; a pet theory. | |
| verb (v. t.) To treat as a pet; to fondle; to indulge; as, she was petted and spoiled. | |
| verb (v. i.) To be a pet. |
| petting | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pet |
| petechiae | noun (n. pl.) Small crimson, purple, or livid spots, like flea-bites, due to extravasation of blood, which appear on the skin in malignant fevers, etc. |
| petechial | adjective (a.) Characterized by, or pertaining to, petechiae; spotted. |
| peter | noun (n.) A common baptismal name for a man. The name of one of the apostles, |
| verb (v. i.) To become exhausted; to run out; to fail; -- used generally with out; as, that mine has petered out. |
| petering | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Peter |
| peterel | noun (n.) See Petrel. |
| peterero | noun (n.) See Pederero. |
| peterman | noun (n.) A fisherman; -- so called after the apostle Peter. |
| petersham | noun (n.) A rough, knotted woolen cloth, used chiefly for men's overcoats; also, a coat of that material. |
| peterwort | noun (n.) See Saint Peter's-wort, under Saint. |
| petiolar | adjective (a.) Alt. of Petiolary |
| petiolary | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to petiole, or proceeding from it; as, a petiolar tendril; growing or supported upon a petiole; as, a petiolar gland; a petiolar bud. |
| petiolate | adjective (a.) Alt. of Petiolated |
| petiolated | adjective (a.) Having a stalk or petiole; as, a petioleate leaf; the petiolated abdomen of certain Hymenoptera. |
| petiole | noun (n.) A leafstalk; the footstalk of a leaf, connecting the blade with the stem. See Illust. of Leaf. |
| noun (n.) A stalk or peduncle. |
| petioled | adjective (a.) Petiolate. |
| petiolulate | adjective (a.) Supported by its own petiolule. |
| petiolule | noun (n.) A small petiole, or the petiole of a leaflet. |
| petit | adjective (a.) Small; little; insignificant; mean; -- Same as Petty. |
| petition | noun (n.) A prayer; a supplication; an imploration; an entreaty; especially, a request of a solemn or formal kind; a prayer to the Supreme Being, or to a person of superior power, rank, or authority; also, a single clause in such a prayer. |
| noun (n.) A formal written request addressed to an official person, or to an organized body, having power to grant it; specifically (Law), a supplication to government, in either of its branches, for the granting of a particular grace or right; -- in distinction from a memorial, which calls certain facts to mind; also, the written document. | |
| verb (v. t.) To make a prayer or request to; to ask from; to solicit; to entreat; especially, to make a formal written supplication, or application to, as to any branch of the government; as, to petition the court; to petition the governor. | |
| verb (v. i.) To make a petition or solicitation. |
| petitioning | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Petition |
| noun (n.) The act of presenting apetition; a supplication. |
| petitionary | adjective (a.) Supplicatory; making a petition. |
| adjective (a.) Containing a petition; of the nature of a petition; as, a petitionary epistle. |
| petitionee | noun (n.) A person cited to answer, or defend against, a petition. |
| petitioner | noun (n.) One who presents a petition. |
| petitor | noun (n.) One who seeks or asks; a seeker; an applicant. |
| petitory | adjective (a.) Petitioning; soliciting; supplicating. |
| petong | noun (n.) See Packfong. |
| petralogy | noun (n.) See Petrology. |
| petrary | noun (n.) An ancient war engine for hurling stones. |
| petrean | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to to rock. |
| petre | noun (n.) See Saltpeter. |
| petrel | noun (n.) Any one of numerous species of longwinged sea birds belonging to the family Procellaridae. The small petrels, or Mother Carey's chickens, belong to Oceanites, Oceanodroma, Procellaria, and several allied genera. |
| petrescence | noun (n.) The process of changing into stone; petrification. |
| petrescent | adjective (a.) Petrifying; converting into stone; as, petrescent water. |
| petrifaction | noun (n.) The process of petrifying, or changing into stone; conversion of any organic matter (animal or vegetable) into stone, or a substance of stony hardness. |
| noun (n.) The state or condition of being petrified. | |
| noun (n.) That which is petrified; popularly, a body incrusted with stony matter; an incrustation. | |
| noun (n.) Fig.: Hardness; callousness; obduracy. |
| petrifactive | adjective (a.) Having the quality of converting organic matter into stone; petrifying. |
| adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or characterized by, petrifaction. |
| petrific | adjective (a.) Petrifying; petrifactive. |
| petrification | noun (n.) See Petrifaction. |
| noun (n.) Fig.: Obduracy; callousness. |
| petrifying | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Petrify |
| petrine | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to St.Peter; as, the Petrine Epistles. |
| petrogale | noun (n.) Any Australian kangaroo of the genus Petrogale, as the rock wallaby (P. penicillata). |
| petroglyphic | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to petroglyphy. |
| petroglyphy | noun (n.) The art or operation of carving figures or inscriptions on rock or stone. |
| petrographic | adjective (a.) Alt. of Petrographical |
| petrographical | adjective (a.) Pertaining to petrography. |
| petrography | noun (n.) The art of writing on stone. |
| noun (n.) The scientific description of rocks; that department of science which investigates the constitution of rocks; petrology. |
| petrohyoid | adjective (a.) Pertaining to petrous, oe periotic, portion of the skull and the hyoid arch; as, the petrohyoid muscles of the frog. |
| petrol | noun (n.) Petroleum. |
| petrolatum | noun (n.) A semisolid unctuous substance, neutral, and without taste or odor, derived from petroleum by distilling off the lighter portions and purifying the residue. It is a yellowish, fatlike mass, transparent in thin layers, and somewhat fluorescent. It is used as a bland protective dressing, and as a substitute for fatty materials in ointments. |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH PETA:
English Words which starts with 'p' and ends with 'a':
| paca | noun (n.) A small South American rodent (Coelogenys paca), having blackish brown fur, with four parallel rows of white spots along its sides; the spotted cavy. It is nearly allied to the agouti and the Guinea pig. |
| pacha | noun (n.) See Pasha. |
| () The chief admiral of the Turkish fleet. |
| pachonta | noun (n.) A substance resembling gutta-percha, and used to adulterate it, obtained from the East Indian tree Isonandra acuminata. |
| pachydermata | noun (n. pl.) A group of hoofed mammals distinguished for the thickness of their skins, including the elephant, hippopotamus, rhinoceros, tapir, horse, and hog. It is now considered an artificial group. |
| padella | noun (n.) A large cup or deep saucer, containing fatty matter in which a wick is placed, -- used for public illuminations, as at St. Peter's, in Rome. Called also padelle. |
| pagina | noun (n.) The surface of a leaf or of a flattened thallus. |
| pagoda | noun (n.) A term by which Europeans designate religious temples and tower-like buildings of the Hindoos and Buddhists of India, Farther India, China, and Japan, -- usually but not always, devoted to idol worship. |
| noun (n.) An idol. | |
| noun (n.) A gold or silver coin, of various kinds and values, formerly current in India. The Madras gold pagoda was worth about three and a half rupees. |
| paguma | noun (n.) Any one of several species of East Indian viverrine mammals of the genus Paguma. They resemble a weasel in form. |
| paijama | noun (n.) Pyjama. |
| palaestra | noun (n.) See Palestra. |
| palama | noun (n.) A membrane extending between the toes of a bird, and uniting them more or less closely together. |
| palanka | noun (n.) A camp permanently intrenched, attached to Turkish frontier fortresses. |
| palea | noun (n.) The interior chaff or husk of grasses. |
| noun (n.) One of the chaffy scales or bractlets growing on the receptacle of many compound flowers, as the Coreopsis, the sunflower, etc. | |
| noun (n.) A pendulous process of the skin on the throat of a bird, as in the turkey; a dewlap. |
| paleechinoidea | noun (n. pl.) An extinct order of sea urchins found in the Paleozoic rocks. They had more than twenty vertical rows of plates. Called also Palaeechini. |
| paleocarida | noun (n. pl.) Same as Merostomata. |
| paleocrinoidea | noun (n. pl.) A suborder of Crinoidea found chiefly in the Paleozoic rocks. |
| paleola | noun (n.) A diminutive or secondary palea; a lodicule. |
| palestra | noun (n.) A wrestling school; hence, a gymnasium, or place for athletic exercise in general. |
| noun (n.) A wrestling; the exercise of wrestling. |
| palingenesia | noun (n.) See Palingenesis. |
| palla | noun (n.) An oblong rectangular piece of cloth, worn by Roman ladies, and fastened with brooches. |
| palliobranchiata | noun (n. pl.) Same as Brachiopoda. |
| palmyra | noun (n.) A species of palm (Borassus flabelliformis) having a straight, black, upright trunk, with palmate leaves. It is found native along the entire northern shores of the Indian Ocean, from the mouth of the Tigris to New Guinea. More than eight hundred uses to which it is put are enumerated by native writers. Its wood is largely used for building purposes; its fruit and roots serve for food, its sap for making toddy, and its leaves for thatching huts. |
| palola | noun (n.) An annelid (Palola viridis) which, at certain seasons of the year, swarms at the surface of the sea about some of the Pacific Islands, where it is collected for food. |
| palpebra | noun (n.) The eyelid. |
| paludina | noun (n.) Any one of numerous species of freshwater pectinibranchiate mollusks, belonging to Paludina, Melantho, and allied genera. They have an operculated shell which is usually green, often with brown bands. See Illust. of Pond snail, under Pond. |
| panacea | noun (n.) A remedy for all diseases; a universal medicine; a cure-all; catholicon; hence, a relief or solace for affliction. |
| noun (n.) The herb allheal. |
| panada | noun (n.) Alt. of Panade |
| panda | noun (n.) A small Asiatic mammal (Ailurus fulgens) having fine soft fur. It is related to the bears, and inhabits the mountains of Northern India. |
| pandora | noun (n.) A beautiful woman (all-gifted), whom Jupiter caused Vulcan to make out of clay in order to punish the human race, because Prometheus had stolen the fire from heaven. Jupiter gave Pandora a box containing all human ills, which, when the box was opened, escaped and spread over the earth. Hope alone remained in the box. Another version makes the box contain all the blessings of the gods, which were lost to men when Pandora opened it. |
| noun (n.) A genus of marine bivalves, in which one valve is flat, the other convex. |
| panorama | noun (n.) A complete view in every direction. |
| noun (n.) A picture presenting a view of objects in every direction, as from a central point. | |
| noun (n.) A picture representing scenes too extended to be beheld at once, and so exhibited a part at a time, by being unrolled, and made to pass continuously before the spectator. |
| panstereorama | noun (n.) A model of a town or country, in relief, executed in wood, cork, pasteboard, or the like. |
| pantastomata | noun (n. pl.) One of the divisions of Flagellata, including the monads and allied forms. |
| pantopoda | noun (n. pl.) Same as Pycnogonida. |
| papa | noun (n.) A child's word for father. |
| noun (n.) A parish priest in the Greek Church. |
| papaphobia | noun (n.) Intense fear or dread of the pope, or of the Roman Catholic Church. |
| papilla | noun (n.) Any minute nipplelike projection; as, the papillae of the tongue. |
| papilloma | noun (n.) A tumor formed by hypertrophy of the papillae of the skin or mucous membrane, as a corn or a wart. |
| papula | noun (n.) A pimple; a small, usually conical, elevation of the cuticle, produced by congestion, accumulated secretion, or hypertrophy of tissue; a papule. |
| noun (n.) One of the numerous small hollow processes of the integument between the plates of starfishes. |
| para | noun (n.) A piece of Turkish money, usually copper, the fortieth part of a piaster, or about one ninth of a cent. |
| noun (n.) The southern arm of the Amazon in Brazil; also, a seaport on this arm. | |
| noun (n.) Short for Para rubber. |
| parabola | noun (n.) A kind of curve; one of the conic sections formed by the intersection of the surface of a cone with a plane parallel to one of its sides. It is a curve, any point of which is equally distant from a fixed point, called the focus, and a fixed straight line, called the directrix. See Focus. |
| noun (n.) One of a group of curves defined by the equation y = axn where n is a positive whole number or a positive fraction. For the cubical parabola n = 3; for the semicubical parabola n = /. See under Cubical, and Semicubical. The parabolas have infinite branches, but no rectilineal asymptotes. |
| paracorolla | noun (n.) A secondary or inner corolla; a corona, as of the Narcissus. |
| paraglossa | noun (n.) One of a pair of small appendages of the lingua or labium of certain insects. See Illust. under Hymenoptera. |
| paramatta | noun (n.) A light fabric of cotton and worsted, resembling bombazine or merino. |
| paranoia | noun (n.) Mental derangement; insanity. |
| noun (n.) A chronic form of insanity characterized by very gradual impairment of the intellect, systematized delusion, and usually by delusious of persecution or mandatory delusions producing homicidal tendency. In its mild form paranoia may consist in the well-marked crotchetiness exhibited in persons commonly called "cranks." Paranoiacs usually show evidences of bodily and nervous degeneration, and many have hallucinations, esp. of sight and hearing. |
| parapherna | noun (n. pl.) The property of a woman which, on her marriage, was not made a part of her dower, but remained her own. |
| paraphernalia | noun (n. pl.) Something reserved to a wife, over and above her dower, being chiefly apparel and ornaments suited to her degree. |
| noun (n. pl.) Appendages; ornaments; finery; equipments. |
| paraphagma | noun (n.) One of the outer divisions of an endosternite of Crustacea. |
| paraplegia | noun (n.) Alt. of Paraplegy |
| parapleura | noun (n.) A chitinous piece between the metasternum and the pleuron of certain insects. |
| parasita | noun (n. pl.) An artificial group formerly made for parasitic insects, as lice, ticks, mites, etc. |
| noun (n. pl.) A division of copepod Crustacea, having a sucking mouth, as the lerneans. They are mostly parasites on fishes. Called also Siphonostomata. |
| parella | noun (n.) Alt. of Parelle |
| parenchyma | noun (n.) The soft celluar substance of the tissues of plants and animals, like the pulp of leaves, to soft tissue of glands, and the like. |
| paridigitata | noun (n. pl.) Same as Artiodactyla. |
| parkeria | noun (n.) A genus of large arenaceous fossil Foraminifera found in the Cretaceous rocks. The species are globular, or nearly so, and are of all sizes up to that of a tennis ball. |
| parnassia | noun (n.) A genus of herbs growing in wet places, and having white flowers; grass of Parnassus. |
| paronomasia | noun (n.) A play upon words; a figure by which the same word is used in different senses, or words similar in sound are set in opposition to each other, so as to give antithetical force to the sentence; punning. |
| paronychia | noun (n.) A whitlow, or felon. |
| parousia | noun (n.) The nativity of our Lord. |
| noun (n.) The last day. |
| parraqua | noun (n.) A curassow of the genus Ortalida, allied to the guan. |
| parrhesia | noun (n.) Boldness or freedom of speech. |
| partita | noun (n.) A suite; a set of variations. |
| parusia | noun (n.) A figure of speech by which the present tense is used instead of the past or the future, as in the animated narration of past, or in the prediction of future, events. |
| pascha | noun (n.) The passover; the feast of Easter. |
| pasha | noun (n.) An honorary title given to officers of high rank in Turkey, as to governers of provinces, military commanders, etc. The earlier form was bashaw. |
| passacaglia | noun (n.) Alt. of Passacaglio |
| passiflora | noun (n.) A genus of plants, including the passion flower. It is the type of the order Passifloreae, which includes about nineteen genera and two hundred and fifty species. |
| pataca | noun (n.) The Spanish dollar; -- called also patacoon. |
| patela | noun (n.) A large flat-bottomed trading boat peculiar to the river Ganges; -- called also puteli. |
| patella | noun (n.) A small dish, pan, or vase. |
| noun (n.) The kneepan; the cap of the knee. | |
| noun (n.) A genus of marine gastropods, including many species of limpets. The shell has the form of a flattened cone. The common European limpet (Patella vulgata) is largely used for food. | |
| noun (n.) A kind of apothecium in lichens, which is orbicular, flat, and sessile, and has a special rim not a part of the thallus. |
| patellula | noun (n.) A cuplike sucker on the feet of certain insects. |
| patena | noun (n.) A paten. |
| noun (n.) A grassy expanse in the hill region of Ceylon. |
| patera | noun (n.) A saucerlike vessel of earthenware or metal, used by the Greeks and Romans in libations and sacrificies. |
| noun (n.) A circular ornament, resembling a dish, often worked in relief on friezes, and the like. |
| pathopoela | noun (n.) A speech, or figure of speech, designed to move the passion. |
| patina | noun (n.) A dish or plate of metal or earthenware; a patella. |
| noun (n.) The color or incrustation which age gives to works of art; especially, the green rust which covers ancient bronzes, coins, and medals. |
| paulownia | noun (n.) A genus of trees of the order Scrophulariaceae, consisting of one species, Paulownia imperialis. |
| pauropoda | noun (n. pl.) An order of small myriapods having only nine pairs of legs and destitute of tracheae. |
| pea | noun (n.) The sliding weight on a steelyard. |
| noun (n.) See Peak, n., 3. | |
| noun (n.) A plant, and its fruit, of the genus Pisum, of many varieties, much cultivated for food. It has a papilionaceous flower, and the pericarp is a legume, popularly called a pod. | |
| noun (n.) A name given, especially in the Southern States, to the seed of several leguminous plants (species of Dolichos, Cicer, Abrus, etc.) esp. those having a scar (hilum) of a different color from the rest of the seed. |
| peba | noun (n.) An armadillo (Tatusia novemcincta) which is found from Texas to Paraguay; -- called also tatouhou. |
| pecora | noun (n. pl.) An extensive division of ruminants, including the antelopes, deer, and cattle. |
| pectinibranchiata | noun (n. pl.) A division of Gastropoda, including those that have a comblike gill upon the neck. |
| pectostraca | noun (n. pl.) A degenerate order of Crustacea, including the Rhizocephala and Cirripedia. |
| pedata | noun (n. pl.) An order of holothurians, including those that have ambulacral suckers, or feet, and an internal gill. |
| pedicellaria | noun (n.) A peculiar forcepslike organ which occurs in large numbers upon starfishes and echini. Those of starfishes have two movable jaws, or blades, and are usually nearly, or quite, sessile; those of echini usually have three jaws and a pedicel. See Illustration in Appendix. |
| pedicellina | noun (n.) A genus of Bryozoa, of the order Entoprocta, having a bell-shaped body supported on a slender pedicel. See Illust. under Entoprocta. |
| pediculina | noun (n. pl.) A division of parasitic hemipterous insects, including the true lice. See Illust. in Appendix. |
| pedimana | noun (n. pl.) A division of marsupials, including the opossums. |
| pedunculata | noun (n. pl.) A division of Cirripedia, including the stalked or goose barnacles. |
| pela | noun (n.) See Wax insect, under Wax. |
| pelecypoda | noun (n. pl.) Same as Lamellibranchia. |
| pelicosauria | noun (n. pl.) A suborder of Theromorpha, including terrestrial reptiles from the Permian formation. |
| pelioma | noun (n.) A livid ecchymosis. |
| noun (n.) See Peliom. |
| pellagra | noun (n.) An erythematous affection of the skin, with severe constitutional and nervous symptoms, endemic in Northern Italy. |
| pellibranchiata | noun (n. pl.) A division of Nudibranchiata, in which the mantle itself serves as a gill. |
| pelma | noun (n.) The under surface of the foot. |
| peloria | noun (n.) Abnormal regularity; the state of certain flowers, which, being naturally irregular, have become regular through a symmetrical repetition of the special irregularity. |
| pelta | noun (n.) A small shield, especially one of an approximately elliptic form, or crescent-shaped. |
| noun (n.) A flat apothecium having no rim. |
| penetralia | noun (n. pl.) The recesses, or innermost parts, of any thing or place, especially of a temple or palace. |
| noun (n. pl.) Hidden things or secrets; privacy; sanctuary; as, the sacred penetralia of the home. |
| peninsula | noun (n.) A portion of land nearly surrounded by water, and connected with a larger body by a neck, or isthmus. |
| penna | noun (n.) A perfect, or normal, feather. |
| pennatula | noun (n.) Any one of numerous species of Pennatula, Pteroides, and allied genera of Alcyonaria, having a featherlike form; a sea-pen. The zooids are situated along one edge of the side branches. |
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