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   petty morel
         n 1: unarmed woody rhizomatous perennial plant distinguished
               from wild sarsaparilla by more aromatic roots and panicled
               umbels; southeastern North America to Mexico [syn:
               {American spikenard}, {petty morel}, {life-of-man}, {Aralia
               racemosa}]

English Dictionary: Photinia arbutifolia by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Peyton Rous
n
  1. United States pathologist who discovered viruses that cause tumors (1879-1970)
    Synonym(s): Rous, Peyton Rous, Francis Peyton Rous
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Photinia arbutifolia
n
  1. ornamental evergreen treelike shrub of the Pacific coast of the United States having large white flowers and red berrylike fruits; often placed in genus Photinia
    Synonym(s): toyon, tollon, Christmasberry, Christmas berry, Heteromeles arbutifolia, Photinia arbutifolia
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
pot marigold
n
  1. the common European annual marigold [syn: {common marigold}, pot marigold, ruddles, Scotch marigold, Calendula officinalis]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
pot marjoram
n
  1. aromatic Eurasian perennial [syn: oregano, marjoram, pot marjoram, wild marjoram, winter sweet, Origanum vulgare]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
put on airs
v
  1. act like the master of; "He is lording it over the students"
    Synonym(s): lord it over, queen it over, put on airs, act superior
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Python reticulatus
n
  1. of southeast Asia and East Indies; the largest snake in the world
    Synonym(s): reticulated python, Python reticulatus
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Patamar \Pat"a*mar\, n. [From the native name.] (Naut.)
      A vessel resembling a grab, used in the coasting trade of
      Bombay and Ceylon. [Written also {pattemar}.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Patamar \Pat"a*mar\, n. [From the native name.] (Naut.)
      A vessel resembling a grab, used in the coasting trade of
      Bombay and Ceylon. [Written also {pattemar}.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Pattemar \Pat"te*mar\, n.
      See {Patamar}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Patamar \Pat"a*mar\, n. [From the native name.] (Naut.)
      A vessel resembling a grab, used in the coasting trade of
      Bombay and Ceylon. [Written also {pattemar}.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Pattemar \Pat"te*mar\, n.
      See {Patamar}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Morel \Mor"el\, n. [See {Morelle}.] (Bot.)
      1. Nightshade; -- so called from its blackish purple berries.
            [Written also {morelle}.]
  
      2. A kind of cherry. See {Morello}.
  
      {Great morel}, the deadly nightshade.
  
      {Petty morel}, the black nightshade. See {Nightshade}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Phytomer \Phy"to*mer\, Phytomeron \Phy*tom"e*ron\, n. [NL.
      phytomeron, fr. Gr. [?] plant + [?] share.] (Bot.)
      An organic element of a flowering plant; a phyton.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Phytomer \Phy"to*mer\, Phytomeron \Phy*tom"e*ron\, n. [NL.
      phytomeron, fr. Gr. [?] plant + [?] share.] (Bot.)
      An organic element of a flowering plant; a phyton.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Pit \Pit\, n. [OE. pit, put, AS. pytt a pit, hole, L. puteus a
      well, pit.]
      1. A large cavity or hole in the ground, either natural or
            artificial; a cavity in the surface of a body; an
            indentation; specifically:
            (a) The shaft of a coal mine; a coal pit.
            (b) A large hole in the ground from which material is dug
                  or quarried; as, a stone pit; a gravel pit; or in
                  which material is made by burning; as, a lime pit; a
                  charcoal pit.
            (c) A vat sunk in the ground; as, a tan pit.
  
                           Tumble me into some loathsome pit. --Shak.
  
      2. Any abyss; especially, the grave, or hades.
  
                     Back to the infernal pit I drag thee chained.
                                                                              --Milton.
  
                     He keepth back his soul from the pit. --Job xxxiii.
                                                                              18.
  
      3. A covered deep hole for entrapping wild beasts; a pitfall;
            hence, a trap; a snare. Also used figuratively.
  
                     The anointed of the Lord was taken in their pits.
                                                                              --Lam. iv. 20.
  
      4. A depression or hollow in the surface of the human body;
            as:
            (a) The hollow place under the shoulder or arm; the
                  axilla, or armpit.
            (b) See {Pit of the stomach} (below).
            (c) The indentation or mark left by a pustule, as in
                  smallpox.
  
      5. Formerly, that part of a theater, on the floor of the
            house, below the level of the stage and behind the
            orchestra; now, in England, commonly the part behind the
            stalls; in the United States, the parquet; also, the
            occupants of such a part of a theater.
  
      6. An inclosed area into which gamecocks, dogs, and other
            animals are brought to fight, or where dogs are trained to
            kill rats. [bd]As fiercely as two gamecocks in the
            pit.[b8] --Locke.
  
      7. [Cf. D. pit, akin to E. pith.] (Bot.)
            (a) The endocarp of a drupe, and its contained seed or
                  seeds; a stone; as, a peach pit; a cherry pit, etc.
            (b) A depression or thin spot in the wall of a duct.
  
      {Cold pit} (Hort.), an excavation in the earth, lined with
            masonry or boards, and covered with glass, but not
            artificially heated, -- used in winter for the storing and
            protection of half-hardly plants, and sometimes in the
            spring as a forcing bed.
  
      {Pit coal}, coal dug from the earth; mineral coal.
  
      {Pit frame}, the framework over the shaft of a coal mine.
  
      {Pit head}, the surface of the ground at the mouth of a pit
            or mine.
  
      {Pit kiln}, an oven for coking coal.
  
      {Pit martin} (Zo[94]l.), the bank swallow. [Prov. Eng.]
  
      {Pit of the stomach} (Anat.), the depression on the middle
            line of the epigastric region of the abdomen at the lower
            end of the sternum; the infrasternal depression.
  
      {Pit saw} (Mech.), a saw worked by two men, one of whom
            stands on the log and the other beneath it. The place of
            the latter is often in a pit, whence the name.
  
      {Pit viper} (Zo[94]l.), any viperine snake having a deep pit
            on each side of the snout. The rattlesnake and copperhead
            are examples.
  
      {Working pit} (Min.), a shaft in which the ore is hoisted and
            the workmen carried; -- in distinction from a shaft used
            for the pumps.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Rock \Rock\, n. [OF. roke, F. roche; cf. Armor. roc'h, and AS.
      rocc.]
      1. A large concreted mass of stony material; a large fixed
            stone or crag. See {Stone}.
  
                     Come one, come all! this rock shall fly From its
                     firm base as soon as I.                     --Sir W.
                                                                              Scott.
  
      2. (Geol.) Any natural deposit forming a part of the earth's
            crust, whether consolidated or not, including sand, earth,
            clay, etc., when in natural beds.
  
      3. That which resembles a rock in firmness; a defense; a
            support; a refuge.
  
                     The Lord is my rock, and my fortress. --2 Sam. xxii.
                                                                              2.
  
      4. Fig.: Anything which causes a disaster or wreck resembling
            the wreck of a vessel upon a rock.
  
      5. (Zo[94]l.) The striped bass. See under {Bass}.
  
      Note: This word is frequently used in the formation of
               self-explaining compounds; as, rock-bound, rock-built,
               rock-ribbed, rock-roofed, and the like.
  
      {Rock alum}. [Probably so called by confusion with F. roche a
            rock.] Same as {Roche alum}.
  
      {Rock barnacle} (Zo[94]l.), a barnacle ({Balanus balanoides})
            very abundant on rocks washed by tides.
  
      {Rock bass}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) The stripped bass. See under {Bass}.
            (b) The goggle-eye.
            (c) The cabrilla. Other species are also locally called
                  rock bass.
  
      {Rock builder} (Zo[94]l.), any species of animal whose
            remains contribute to the formation of rocks, especially
            the corals and Foraminifera.
  
      {Rock butter} (Min.), native alum mixed with clay and oxide
            of iron, usually in soft masses of a yellowish white
            color, occuring in cavities and fissures in argillaceous
            slate.
  
      {Rock candy}, a form of candy consisting of crystals of pure
            sugar which are very hard, whence the name.
  
      {Rock cavy}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Moco}.
  
      {Rock cod} (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) A small, often reddish or brown, variety of the cod
                  found about rocks andledges.
            (b) A California rockfish.
  
      {Rock cook}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) A European wrasse ({Centrolabrus exoletus}).
            (b) A rockling.
  
      {Rock cork} (Min.), a variety of asbestus the fibers of which
            are loosely interlaced. It resembles cork in its texture.
           
  
      {Rock crab} (Zo[94]l.), any one of several species of large
            crabs of the genus {Cancer}, as the two species of the New
            England coast ({C. irroratus} and {C. borealis}). See
            Illust. under {Cancer}.
  
      {Rock cress} (Bot.), a name of several plants of the cress
            kind found on rocks, as {Arabis petr[91]a}, {A. lyrata},
            etc.
  
      {Rock crystal} (Min.), limpid quartz. See {Quartz}, and under
            {Crystal}.
  
      {Rock dove} (Zo[94]l.), the rock pigeon; -- called also {rock
            doo}.
  
      {Rock drill}, an implement for drilling holes in rock; esp.,
            a machine impelled by steam or compressed air, for
            drilling holes for blasting, etc.
  
      {Rock duck} (Zo[94]l.), the harlequin duck.
  
      {Rock eel}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Gunnel}.
  
      {Rock goat} (Zo[94]l.), a wild goat, or ibex.
  
      {Rock hopper} (Zo[94]l.), a penguin of the genus
            {Catarractes}. See under {Penguin}.
  
      {Rock kangaroo}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Kangaroo}, and {Petrogale}.
           
  
      {Rock lobster} (Zo[94]l.), any one of several species of
            large spinose lobsters of the genera {Panulirus} and
            {Palinurus}. They have no large claws. Called also {spiny
            lobster}, and {sea crayfish}.
  
      {Rock meal} (Min.), a light powdery variety of calcite
            occuring as an efflorescence.
  
      {Rock milk}. (Min.) See {Agaric mineral}, under {Agaric}.
  
      {Rock moss}, a kind of lichen; the cudbear. See {Cudbear}.
  
      {Rock oil}. See {Petroleum}.
  
      {Rock parrakeet} (Zo[94]l.), a small Australian parrakeet
            ({Euphema petrophila}), which nests in holes among the
            rocks of high cliffs. Its general color is yellowish olive
            green; a frontal band and the outer edge of the wing
            quills are deep blue, and the central tail feathers bluish
            green.
  
      {Rock pigeon} (Zo[94]l.), the wild pigeon ({Columba livia})
            Of Europe and Asia, from which the domestic pigeon was
            derived. See Illust. under {Pigeon}.
  
      {Rock pipit}. (Zo[94]l.) See the Note under {Pipit}.
  
      {Rock plover}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) The black-bellied, or whistling, plover.
            (b) The rock snipe.
  
      {Rock ptarmigan} (Zo[94]l.), an arctic American ptarmigan
            ({Lagopus rupestris}), which in winter is white, with the
            tail and lores black. In summer the males are grayish
            brown, coarsely vermiculated with black, and have black
            patches on the back.
  
      {Rock rabbit} (Zo[94]l.), the hyrax. See {Cony}, and {Daman}.
           
  
      {Rock ruby} (Min.), a fine reddish variety of garnet.
  
      {Rock salt} (Min.), cloride of sodium (common salt) occuring
            in rocklike masses in mines; mineral salt; salt dug from
            the earth. In the United States this name is sometimes
            given to salt in large crystals, formed by evaporation
            from sea water in large basins or cavities.
  
      {Rock seal} (Zo[94]l.), the harbor seal. See {Seal}.
  
      {Rock shell} (Zo[94]l.), any species of Murex, Purpura, and
            allied genera.
  
      {Rock snake} (Zo[94]l.), any one of several large pythons;
            as, the royal rock snake ({Python regia}) of Africa, and
            the rock snake of India ({P. molurus}). The Australian
            rock snakes mostly belong to the allied genus {Morelia}.
           
  
      {Rock snipe} (Zo[94]l.), the purple sandpiper ({Tringa
            maritima}); -- called also {rock bird}, {rock plover},
            {winter snipe}.
  
      {Rock soap} (Min.), a kind of clay having a smooth, greasy
            feel, and adhering to the tongue.
  
      {Rock sparrow}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) Any one of several species of Old World sparrows of
                  the genus {Petronia}, as {P. stulla}, of Europe.
            (b) A North American sparrow ({Puc[91]a ruficeps}).
  
      {Rock tar}, petroleum.
  
      {Rock thrush} (Zo[94]l.), any Old World thrush of the genus
            {Monticola}, or {Petrocossyphus}; as, the European rock
            thrush ({M. saxatilis}), and the blue rock thrush of India
            ({M. cyaneus}), in which the male is blue throughout.
  
      {Rock tripe} (Bot.), a kind of lichen ({Umbilicaria
            Dillenii}) growing on rocks in the northen parts of
            America, and forming broad, flat, coriaceous, dark fuscous
            or blackish expansions. It has been used as food in cases
            of extremity.
  
      {Rock trout} (Zo[94]l.), any one of several species of marine
            food fishes of the genus {Hexagrammus}, family
            {Chirad[91]}, native of the North Pacific coasts; --
            called also {sea trout}, {boregat}, {bodieron}, and
            {starling}.
  
      {Rock warbler} (Zo[94]l.), a small Australian singing bird
            ({Origma rubricata}) which frequents rocky ravines and
            water courses; -- called also {cataract bird}.
  
      {Rock wren} (Zo[94]l.), any one of several species of wrens
            of the genus {Salpinctes}, native of the arid plains of
            Lower California and Mexico.

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Padanaram Villag, MA
      Zip code(s): 02748

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
   Padan-aram
      the plain of Aram, or the plain of the highlands, (Gen. 25:20;
      28:2, 5-7; 31:18, etc.), commonly regarded as the district of
      Mesopotamia (q.v.) lying around Haran.
     

From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:
   Padan-aram, cultivated field or table-land
  
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