patchouli
Any of several East Indian plants in the genus Pogostemon, especially Pogostemon cablin, which yield a highly fragrant oil.
The oil or perfume made from these plants.

patchoulis
plural of patchouli

patican
The Philippine fishtail palm (Caryota cumingii).

paticans
plural of patican

patotara
Leucopogon fraseri, a small prickly shrub of New Zealand and eastern Australia.

patrin
Alternative form of patteran.

patrins
plural of patrin

patteran
Any of several coded signs left along a road or on a non-Roma house by one Rom to another. The most common ones consist of crossed sprigs (usually of different trees or shrubs) indicating, for example, a direction travelled.

patterans
plural of patteran

paukpan
A bast fiber made from the flowering plant Aeschynomene aspera.

paullinia
Any vine of the genus Paullinia.

paullinias
plural of paullinia

pavonia
Any plant of the genus Pavonia of swampmallows.

pavonias
plural of pavonia

paxiuba
A palm tree of the genus Iriartea.

paxiubas
plural of paxiuba

peachlet
A small peach.

peachlets
plural of peachlet

peachwort
Any of various plants of genus Persicaria.

peacod
Alternative form of peascod.

peacods
plural of peacod

peacotum
A hybrid species of peach, apricot, and plum lineage.

peacotums
plural of peacotum

pearwood
The wood of the pear tree.

pearwoods
plural of pearwood

peascod
The legume or pericarp, or the pod, of the pea.
A padded doublet fashionable in 16th century Europe.

peascods
plural of peascod

peasecod
Alternative form of peascod.

peasecods
plural of peasecod

pedicel
A stalk of an individual flower (or fruit, e.g., once fertilised) or spore-producing body within a cluster.
A stalk of a fungus fruiting body.
A stalk-shaped body part; an anatomical part that resembles a stem or stalk.
A narrow stalk-like body part connecting specific segments in certain insects and some other arthropods.
A narrow stalk-like body part connecting specific segments in certain insects and some other arthropods.
A narrow stalk-like body part connecting specific segments in certain insects and some other arthropods.
The segment of an antler that attaches to the head of a cervid.

pedicels
plural of pedicel

pedicule
A pedicel

pedicules
plural of pedicule

pedinophycean
Any green alga of the class Pedinophyceae.

pedinophyceans
plural of pedinophycean

peduncle
The stalk supporting an inflorescence or a solitary flower/fruit.
A short stalk at the base of a reproductive structure of a non-flowering plant.
A bundle of neurons connecting different parts of the brain.
In arthropods, the base segments of an antenna or stalk-like structures such as the peduncles of some barnacles.
In vertebrates, the base of any relatively massive anatomical member connected to the body by a narrower section. Cf. caudal peduncle of fishes.
A stem attaching a mass of tissue (such as a polyp) to the body.
A collection of nerves in the appendage of an animal (such as the tip of a dolphin's tail).

peduncles
plural of peduncle

peeloo
Salvadora persica (toothbrush tree).

pelagophycean
Any marine alga of the class Pelagophyceae

pelagophyceans
plural of pelagophycean

pelagophyte
Any of several heterokont algae of the class Pelagophyceae.

pelagophytes
plural of pelagophyte

pelorisation
Alternative form of pelorization.

pelorism
An abnormality in plants where the flower appears to revert to an earlier form.

pelorization
Synonym of pelorism.

peltasperm
Any extinct plant of the order Peltaspermales

peltasperms
plural of peltasperm

penstemon
Any plant of the genus Penstemon, the beardtongues.

penstemons
plural of penstemon

penstock
A sluice or pipe which allows the controlled flow of water from behind a dam, typically routing it to a turbine of a power plant.
The barrel of a wooden pump.

penstocks
plural of penstock

pentacrinoid
An immature comatula when it is still attached by a stem.

pentacrinoids
plural of pentacrinoid

pentail
A species of treeshrew (Ptilocercus lowii) of Borneo, with a very long, quill-shaped tail, which is scaly at the base and plumose at the tip.

pentails
plural of pentail

pentander
Any plant of the former class Pentandria, having five stamens.

pentanders
plural of pentander

pentstock
Alternative form of penstock.

pentstocks
plural of pentstock

peperomia
Any plant of the genus Peperomia, some of which are popular houseplants.

peperomias
plural of peperomia

pepperbush
Any shrub of the genus Clethra.

pepperwort
Any of several species of perennial plant in the genus Lepidium (originally specifically dittander, species Lepidium latifolium), which is a member of the mustard and cabbage family.
Any of various species of plant in the genus Marsilea, especially Marsilea minuta.

pepperworts
plural of pepperwort

peppies
plural of peppy

pequi
Any of various trees of the genus Caryocar, a souari.
The fruit of such trees, pequi nut.

pequis
plural of pequi

perdifoil
Any deciduous plant.

perdifoils
plural of perdifoil

peregrina
A plant of the spurge family, Jatropha interregima, which is native to the Caribbean but introduced throughout the tropics.

perennialization
The conversion of a plant from an annual to a perennial

perfectibilian
A perfectionist.

perianth
The sterile parts of a flower; collectively, the sepals and petals (or tepals).
The sterile, tubelike tissue that surrounds the female reproductive structure in a leafy liverwort.

perianthium
The perianth.

perianths
plural of perianth

periastra
plural of periastron

periastron
That point of the orbit of a celestial body which is closest to the star around which the body is orbiting.

periastrons
plural of periastron

pericycle
In a plant root, the cylinder of plant tissue between the endodermis and phloem.

pericycles
plural of pericycle

periderm
The outer layer of plant tissue comprising the phellem, phellogen and the phelloderm.
The perisarc; the hard outer layer of hydroids and other marine animals.

periderma
Alternative form of periderm

peridermis
Alternative form of periderm

periderms
plural of periderm

peridexion
A legendary tree believed to grow in India that attracts doves and repels dragons.

peridexions
plural of peridexion

perigone
perianth
In mosses, the involucral bracts of a male flower.
A sac surrounding the generative bodies in the gonophore of a hydroid.

perigones
plural of perigone

perigonium
The sterile parts of a flower; collectively, the sepals and petals (or tepals); the perianth.
The modified leaves around the antheridia in a bryophytic plant.
The wall of the sporosac in a hydroid.

periphyton
A mixture of algae, cyanobacteria, heterotrophic microbes, and detritus that is attached to submerged surfaces in most aquatic ecosystems.

periphytons
plural of periphyton

periplast
periblast of algae
periplasm

periplasts
plural of periplast

peristerion
The herb vervain (Verbena officinalis).

perovskia
Any of the genus Perovskia of flowering plants in the mint family, Lamiaceae.

perovskias
plural of perovskia

persoonia
A plant of the genus Persoonia.

persoonias
plural of persoonia

pescod
Obsolete form of peascod.

pescods
plural of pescod

petitgrain
An essential oil that is extracted from the green twigs of the bitter orange plant.

petridophyte
Misspelling of pteridophyte.

petunidin
An anthocyanidin responsible for the dark red or purple colour in many berries and flower petals.

petunidins
plural of petunidin

peucedanin
A tasteless white crystalline substance extracted from the roots of the sulphurwort (Peucedanum), masterwort (Imperatoria), and related plants (tribe Selineae).

peucedanum
Any apiaceous plant of the genus Peucedanum.

phaenogam
Alternative form of phenogam.

phaenogams
plural of phaenogam

phaeophyte
Any brown alga (of the class Phaeophyceae)

phaeophytes
plural of phaeophyte

phaeospore
A brownish zoospore, characteristic of an order (Phaeosporeae) of dark green or olive-colored algae.

phaeospores
plural of phaeospore

phagnalon
Any plant of the genus Phagnalon