English Dictionary: Picus viridis | by the DICT Development Group |
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Thunderbird \Thun"der*bird`\, n. (Zo[94]l.) An Australian insectivorous singing bird ({Pachycephala gutturalis}). The male is conspicuously marked with black and yellow, and has a black crescent on the breast. Called also {white-throated thickhead}, {orange-breasted thrust}, {black-crowned thrush}, {guttural thrush}, and {black-breasted flycatcher}. | |
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Courage is native to you. --Jowett (Thucyd. ). 6. Naturally related; cognate; connected (with). [R.] the head is not more native to the heart, . . . Than is the throne of Denmark to thy father. --Shak. 7. (Min.) (a) Found in nature uncombined with other elements; as, native silver. (b) Found in nature; not artificial; as native sodium chloride. {Native American party}. See under {American}, a. {Native bear} (Zo[94]l.), the koala. {Native bread} (Bot.), a large underground fungus, of Australia ({Mylitta australis}), somewhat resembling a truffle, but much larger. {Native devil}. (Zo[94]l.) Same as {Tasmanian devil}, under {Devil}. {Native hen} (Zo[94]l.), an Australian rail ({Tribonyx Mortierii}). {Native pheasant}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Leipoa}. {Native rabbit} (Zo[94]l.), an Australian marsupial ({Perameles lagotis}) resembling a rabbit in size and form. {Native sloth} (Zo[94]l.), the koala. {Native thrush} (Zo[94]l.), an Australian singing bird ({Pachycephala olivacea}); -- called also {thickhead}. {Native turkey} (Zo[94]l.), the Australian bustard ({Choriotis australis}); -- called also {bebilya}. Syn: Natural; natal; original; congential. Usage: {Native}, {Natural}, {Natal}. natural refers to the nature of a thing, or that which springs therefrom; native, to one's birth or origin; as, a native country, language, etc.; natal, to the circumstances of one's birth; as, a natal day, or star. Native talent is that which is inborn; natural talent is that which springs from the structure of the mind. Native eloquence is the result of strong innate emotion; natural eloquence is opposed to that which is studied or artifical. | |
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Paucispiral \Pau`ci*spi"ral\, a. [L. paucus few + E. spiral.] (Zo[94]l.) Having few spirals, or whorls; as, a paucispiral operculum or shell. | |
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Peacock \Pea"cock`\, n. [OE. pecok. Pea- in this word is from AS. pe[a0], p[be]wa, peacock, fr. L. pavo, prob. of Oriental origin; cf. Gr. [?], [?], Per. t[be]us, t[be]wus, Ar. t[be]wu[?]s. See {Cock} the bird.] 1. (Zo[94]l.) The male of any pheasant of the genus {Pavo}, of which at least two species are known, native of Southern Asia and the East Indies. Note: The upper tail coverts, which are long and capable of erection, are each marked with a black spot bordered by concentric bands of brilliant blue, green, and golden colors. The common domesticated species is {Pavo cristatus}. The Javan peacock ({P. muticus}) is more brilliantly colored than the common species. 2. In common usage, the species in general or collectively; a peafowl. {Peacock butterfly} (Zo[94]l.), a handsome European butterfly ({Hamadryas Io}) having ocelli like those of peacock. {Peacock fish} (Zo[94]l.), the European blue-striped wrasse ({Labrus variegatus}); -- so called on account of its brilliant colors. Called also {cook wrasse} and {cook}. {Peacock pheasant} (Zo[94]l.), any one of several species of handsome Asiatic pheasants of the genus {Polyplectron}. They resemble the peacock in color. | |
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Peacock \Pea"cock`\, n. [OE. pecok. Pea- in this word is from AS. pe[a0], p[be]wa, peacock, fr. L. pavo, prob. of Oriental origin; cf. Gr. [?], [?], Per. t[be]us, t[be]wus, Ar. t[be]wu[?]s. See {Cock} the bird.] 1. (Zo[94]l.) The male of any pheasant of the genus {Pavo}, of which at least two species are known, native of Southern Asia and the East Indies. Note: The upper tail coverts, which are long and capable of erection, are each marked with a black spot bordered by concentric bands of brilliant blue, green, and golden colors. The common domesticated species is {Pavo cristatus}. The Javan peacock ({P. muticus}) is more brilliantly colored than the common species. 2. In common usage, the species in general or collectively; a peafowl. {Peacock butterfly} (Zo[94]l.), a handsome European butterfly ({Hamadryas Io}) having ocelli like those of peacock. {Peacock fish} (Zo[94]l.), the European blue-striped wrasse ({Labrus variegatus}); -- so called on account of its brilliant colors. Called also {cook wrasse} and {cook}. {Peacock pheasant} (Zo[94]l.), any one of several species of handsome Asiatic pheasants of the genus {Polyplectron}. They resemble the peacock in color. | |
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Peacock \Pea"cock`\, n. [OE. pecok. Pea- in this word is from AS. pe[a0], p[be]wa, peacock, fr. L. pavo, prob. of Oriental origin; cf. Gr. [?], [?], Per. t[be]us, t[be]wus, Ar. t[be]wu[?]s. See {Cock} the bird.] 1. (Zo[94]l.) The male of any pheasant of the genus {Pavo}, of which at least two species are known, native of Southern Asia and the East Indies. Note: The upper tail coverts, which are long and capable of erection, are each marked with a black spot bordered by concentric bands of brilliant blue, green, and golden colors. The common domesticated species is {Pavo cristatus}. The Javan peacock ({P. muticus}) is more brilliantly colored than the common species. 2. In common usage, the species in general or collectively; a peafowl. {Peacock butterfly} (Zo[94]l.), a handsome European butterfly ({Hamadryas Io}) having ocelli like those of peacock. {Peacock fish} (Zo[94]l.), the European blue-striped wrasse ({Labrus variegatus}); -- so called on account of its brilliant colors. Called also {cook wrasse} and {cook}. {Peacock pheasant} (Zo[94]l.), any one of several species of handsome Asiatic pheasants of the genus {Polyplectron}. They resemble the peacock in color. | |
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Phakoscope \Phak"o*scope\, n. [Gr. [?] a lentil, or lenticular body + -scope.] (Physiol.) An instrument for studying the mechanism of accommodation. | |
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Phase splitter \Phase splitter\ (Elec.) A device by which a single-phase current is split into two or more currents differing in phase. It is used in starting single-phase induction motors. | |
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Phase splitting \Phase splitting\ (Elec.) The dephasing of the two parts of a single alternating current in two dissimilar branches of a given circuit. | |
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Forkbeard \Fork"beard`\, n. (Zo[94]l.) (a) A European fish ({Raniceps raninus}), having a large flat head; -- also called {tadpole fish}, and {lesser forked beard}. (b) The European forked hake or hake's-dame ({Phycis blennoides}); -- also called {great forked beard}. | |
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Physico-philosophy \Phys`i*co-phi*los"o*phy\, n. [Physico- + philosophy.] The philosophy of nature. | |
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Green \Green\, a. [Compar. {Greener}; superl. {Greenest.}] [OE. grene, AS. gr?ne; akin to D. groen, OS. gr?ni, OHG. gruoni, G. gr?n, Dan. & Sw. gr?n, Icel. gr?nn; fr. the root of E. grow. See {Grow.}] 1. Having the color of grass when fresh and growing; resembling that color of the solar spectrum which is between the yellow and the blue; verdant; emerald. 2. Having a sickly color; wan. To look so green and pale. --Shak. 3. Full of life aud vigor; fresh and vigorous; new; recent; as, a green manhood; a green wound. As valid against such an old and beneficent government as against . . . the greenest usurpation. --Burke. 4. Not ripe; immature; not fully grown or ripened; as, green fruit, corn, vegetables, etc. 5. Not roasted; half raw. [R.] We say the meat is green when half roasted. --L. Watts. 6. Immature in age or experience; young; raw; not trained; awkward; as, green in years or judgment. I might be angry with the officious zeal which supposes that its green conceptions can instruct my gray hairs. --Sir W. Scott. 7. Not seasoned; not dry; containing its natural juices; as, green wood, timber, etc. --Shak. {Green brier} (Bot.), a thorny climbing shrub ({Emilaz rotundifolia}) having a yellowish green stem and thick leaves, with small clusters of flowers, common in the United States; -- called also {cat brier}. {Green con} (Zo[94]l.), the pollock. {Green crab} (Zo[94]l.), an edible, shore crab ({Carcinus menas}) of Europe and America; -- in New England locally named {joe-rocker}. {Green crop}, a crop used for food while in a growing or unripe state, as distingushed from a grain crop, root crop, etc. {Green diallage}. (Min.) (a) Diallage, a variety of pyroxene. (b) Smaragdite. {Green dragon} (Bot.), a North American herbaceous plant ({Aris[91]ma Dracontium}), resembling the Indian turnip; -- called also {dragon root}. {Green earth} (Min.), a variety of glauconite, found in cavities in amygdaloid and other eruptive rock, and used as a pigment by artists; -- called also {mountain green}. {Green ebony}. (a) A south American tree ({Jacaranda ovalifolia}), having a greenish wood, used for rulers, turned and inlaid work, and in dyeing. (b) The West Indian green ebony. See {Ebony}. {Green fire} (Pyrotech.), a composition which burns with a green flame. It consists of sulphur and potassium chlorate, with some salt of barium (usually the nitrate), to which the color of the flame is due. {Green fly} (Zo[94]l.), any green species of plant lice or aphids, esp. those that infest greenhouse plants. {Green gage}, (Bot.) See {Greengage}, in the Vocabulary. {Green gland} (Zo[94]l.), one of a pair of large green glands in Crustacea, supposed to serve as kidneys. They have their outlets at the bases of the larger antenn[91]. {Green hand}, a novice. [Colloq.] {Green heart} (Bot.), the wood of a lauraceous tree found in the West Indies and in South America, used for shipbuilding or turnery. The green heart of Jamaica and Guiana is the {Nectandra Rodi[d2]i}, that of Martinique is the {Colubrina ferruginosa}. {Green iron ore} (Min.) dufrenite. {Green laver} (Bot.), an edible seaweed ({Ulva latissima}); -- called also {green sloke}. {Green lead ore} (Min.), pyromorphite. {Green linnet} (Zo[94]l.), the greenfinch. {Green looper} (Zo[94]l.), the cankerworm. {Green marble} (Min.), serpentine. {Green mineral}, a carbonate of copper, used as a pigment. See {Greengill}. {Green monkey} (Zo[94]l.) a West African long-tailed monkey ({Cercopithecus callitrichus}), very commonly tamed, and trained to perform tricks. It was introduced into the West Indies early in the last century, and has become very abundant there. {Green salt of Magnus} (Old Chem.), a dark green crystalline salt, consisting of ammonia united with certain chlorides of platinum. {Green sand} (Founding) molding sand used for a mold while slightly damp, and not dried before the cast is made. {Green sea} (Naut.), a wave that breaks in a solid mass on a vessel's deck. {Green sickness} (Med.), chlorosis. {Green snake} (Zo[94]l.), one of two harmless American snakes ({Cyclophis vernalis}, and {C. [91]stivus}). They are bright green in color. {Green turtle} (Zo[94]l.), an edible marine turtle. See {Turtle}. {Green vitriol}. (a) (Chem.) Sulphate of iron; a light green crystalline substance, very extensively used in the preparation of inks, dyes, mordants, etc. (b) (Min.) Same as {copperas}, {melanterite} and {sulphate of iron}. {Green ware}, articles of pottery molded and shaped, but not yet baked. {Green woodpecker} (Zo[94]l.), a common European woodpecker ({Picus viridis}); -- called also {yaffle}. | |
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Pissasphalt \Pis"sas*phalt\, n. [L. pissasphaltus, Gr. [?]; [?] pitch + [?] asphalt: cf. F. pissasphalte.] (Min.) Earth pitch; a soft, black bitumen of the consistence of tar, and of a strong smell. It is inflammable, and intermediate between petroleum and asphalt. [Written also {pisasphaltum}, {pisasphalt}, etc.] | |
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Pissasphalt \Pis"sas*phalt\, n. [L. pissasphaltus, Gr. [?]; [?] pitch + [?] asphalt: cf. F. pissasphalte.] (Min.) Earth pitch; a soft, black bitumen of the consistence of tar, and of a strong smell. It is inflammable, and intermediate between petroleum and asphalt. [Written also {pisasphaltum}, {pisasphalt}, etc.] | |
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Pisasphaltum \Pis`as*phal"tum\, n. See {Pissasphalt}. | |
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Pissasphalt \Pis"sas*phalt\, n. [L. pissasphaltus, Gr. [?]; [?] pitch + [?] asphalt: cf. F. pissasphalte.] (Min.) Earth pitch; a soft, black bitumen of the consistence of tar, and of a strong smell. It is inflammable, and intermediate between petroleum and asphalt. [Written also {pisasphaltum}, {pisasphalt}, etc.] | |
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Pisasphaltum \Pis`as*phal"tum\, n. See {Pissasphalt}. | |
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Piscicapture \Pis"ci*cap`ture\, n. Capture of fishes, as by angling. [R.] --W. H. Russell. | |
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Pissasphalt \Pis"sas*phalt\, n. [L. pissasphaltus, Gr. [?]; [?] pitch + [?] asphalt: cf. F. pissasphalte.] (Min.) Earth pitch; a soft, black bitumen of the consistence of tar, and of a strong smell. It is inflammable, and intermediate between petroleum and asphalt. [Written also {pisasphaltum}, {pisasphalt}, etc.] | |
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Possessival \Pos`ses*si"val\, a. Of or pertaining to the possessive case; as, a possessival termination. --Earle. | |
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Possessive \Pos*sess"ive\, a. [L. possessivus: cf. F. possessif.] Of or pertaining to possession; having or indicating possession. {Possessive case} (Eng. Gram.), the genitive case; the case of nouns and pronouns which expresses ownership, origin, or some possessive relation of one thing to another; as, Homer's admirers; the pear's flavor; the dog's faithfulness. {Possessive pronoun}, a pronoun denoting ownership; as, his name; her home; my book. | |
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Possessive \Pos*sess"ive\, n. 1. (Gram.) The possessive case. 2. (Gram.) A possessive pronoun, or a word in the possessive case. | |
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Possessive \Pos*sess"ive\, a. [L. possessivus: cf. F. possessif.] Of or pertaining to possession; having or indicating possession. {Possessive case} (Eng. Gram.), the genitive case; the case of nouns and pronouns which expresses ownership, origin, or some possessive relation of one thing to another; as, Homer's admirers; the pear's flavor; the dog's faithfulness. {Possessive pronoun}, a pronoun denoting ownership; as, his name; her home; my book. | |
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Possessive \Pos*sess"ive\, a. [L. possessivus: cf. F. possessif.] Of or pertaining to possession; having or indicating possession. {Possessive case} (Eng. Gram.), the genitive case; the case of nouns and pronouns which expresses ownership, origin, or some possessive relation of one thing to another; as, Homer's admirers; the pear's flavor; the dog's faithfulness. {Possessive pronoun}, a pronoun denoting ownership; as, his name; her home; my book. | |
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Possessively \Pos*sess"ive*ly\, adv. In a possessive manner. | |
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Pseuso-peripteral \Pseu`so-pe*rip"ter*al\, a. [Pseudo- + peripteral: cf. F. pseudop[82]ript[8a]re.] (Arch.) Falsely or imperfectly peripteral, as a temple having the columns at the sides attached to the walls, and an ambulatory only at the ends or only at one end. -- n. A pseudo-peripteral temple. --Oxf. Gloss. | |
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Psychopannychism \Psy"cho*pan"ny*chism\, n. [Psycho- + Gr. [?] to spend all night long; [?], [?], all + [?] night.] (Theol.) The doctrine that the soul falls asleep at death, and does not wake until the resurrection of the body. -- {Psy`cho*pan"ny*chism}, n. | |
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Psychopathy \Psy*chop"a*thy\, n. [Psycho- + Gr. [?], [?].] (Med.) Mental disease. See {Psychosis}, 2. -- {Psy`cho*path"ic}, a. -- {Psy*chop"a*thist}, n. | |
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Psychopathy \Psy*chop"a*thy\, n. [Psycho- + Gr. [?], [?].] (Med.) Mental disease. See {Psychosis}, 2. -- {Psy`cho*path"ic}, a. -- {Psy*chop"a*thist}, n. | |
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Psychopathy \Psy*chop"a*thy\, n. [Psycho- + Gr. [?], [?].] (Med.) Mental disease. See {Psychosis}, 2. -- {Psy`cho*path"ic}, a. -- {Psy*chop"a*thist}, n. | |
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Psychophysical \Psy`cho*phys"ic*al\, a. Of or pertaining to psychophysics; involving the action or mutual relations of the psychical and physical in man. {Psychophysical time} (Physiol.), the time required for the mind to transform a sensory impression into a motor impulse. It is an important part of physiological or reaction time. See under {Reaction}. | |
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Psychophysical \Psy`cho*phys"ic*al\, a. Of or pertaining to psychophysics; involving the action or mutual relations of the psychical and physical in man. {Psychophysical time} (Physiol.), the time required for the mind to transform a sensory impression into a motor impulse. It is an important part of physiological or reaction time. See under {Reaction}. | |
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Psychophysics \Psy`cho*phys"ics\, n. [Psycho- + physics.] The science of the connection between nerve action and consciousness; the science which treats of the relations of the psychical and physical in their conjoint operation in man; the doctrine of the relation of function or dependence between body and soul. | |
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Psychopomp \Psy"cho*pomp\, n. [Gr. [?]; psychh` the soul + [?] to send: cf. F. psychopompe.] (Myth.) A leader or guide of souls . --J. Fiske. | |
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