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noun
- An annoying, often destructive creature.
- A person who is annoying.
- (slang) Someone with poor social discipline who continually bothers disinterested women.
- Stop being such a pest and leave that girl alone!
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| Pharaoh ant |
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noun
- A species of ant, monomorium pharaonis, native to the United States but introduced elsewhere.
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| pismire |
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noun
- (context, obsolete, _, except in dialects) An ant.
- Late C14: He is as angry as a pissemyre, / í�ogh í¾at he have al í¾at he kan desire " Geoffrey Chaucer, The Summoner's Tale
- 1658: Much there is not of wonder in the confused Houses of Pismires, though much in their busie life and actions " Sir Thomas Browne, The Garden of Cyrus (Folio Society 2007, p. 189)
- 1993: We are scurrying emmets or pismires with our sad little comedies. " Anthony Burgess, A Dead Man in Deptford
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| pleura |
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noun (plural pleurae)
- (anatomy) The smooth serous membrane which closely covers the lungs and the adjacent surfaces of the thorax; the pleural membrane.
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| pleural |
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adjective
- of, relating to, or affecting the pleura, or the sides of the thoraxO
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| polygyny |
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noun (polygynies)
- The state or practice of having several wife, wives at the same time; plurality of wives; marriage to several wives - H. Spenser
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| polypod |
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noun - (zoology) an animal with many feet
- (botany) any fern of the family Polypodiaceae
adjective - (zoology) having many feet
- (zoology) of or pertaining to the Polypoda
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| praying mantis |
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noun
- Any of various predatory insects of the family Mantidae that have a prayer-like stance.
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| propolis |
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noun
- A glue-like substance produced from tree resin by honeybees.
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| pubic louse |
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noun (pubic lice, sg=pubic louse)
- crab louse
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| punkie |
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noun
- a small two-winged fly, of the family Ceratopogonidae, that bites and then sucks the blood of mammals; the biting midge
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| pupa |
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noun (pl=pupae, pl2=pupas)
- an insect in its development stage between a larva and an adult.
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| pupate |
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verb to pupate
- To become a pupa.
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| Purple |
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proper noun
- (rare) a family name
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