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Of or pertaining to marshes or fens; marshy. [R.] Paludal fever, malarial fever; -- so called because generated in marshy districts.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a paraboloid.

A parachordal cartilage.

A leopard. [Obs.] Spenser.

Of or pertaining to parricide; guilty of parricide.

Of or pertaining to patricide; parricidal.

lly or figuratively; specifically (Zoöl.), pertaining to the foot of a mollusk; as, the pedal ganglion.

Relating to the foot, or to a metrical foot; pedal. [R.] Maunder.

The act of measuring by paces. [R.] Ash.

Around the notochord; as, a perichordal column. See Epichordal.

The peanut (Arachis hypogæa); -- so called in the West Indies.

Pertaining to a planetoid.

pain in the foot, due to gout, rheumatism, etc.

A unit of force based upon the pound, foot, and second, being the force which, acting on a pound avoirdupois for one second, causes it to acquire by the of that time a velocity of one foot per second. It is about equal to the weight of half an ounce, and is 13,825 dynes.

Of or pertaining to a prebend; holding a prebend; as, a prebendal priest or stall. Chesterfield.

Of or pertaining to prey; plundering; predatory. [R.] Boyse.

Of or pertaining to the presphenoid bone; presphenoid.

Having a prismlike form. Ure.

Having the form of a prismoid; as, prismoidal solids.

Situated in front of the notochord; -- applied especially to parts of the cartilaginous rudiments in the base of the skull.