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A solid having many summits or angular points; a polyhedron.

An old name for those Anthozoa which, like the actinias, have numerous simple tentacles.

A Linnæan class of plants having stamens united in three or more bodies or bundles by the filaments.

Belonging to the class Polyadelphia; having stamens united in three or more bundles.

A Linnæan class of monoclinous or hermaphrodite plants, having many stamens, or any number above twenty, inserted in the receptacle.

Polyandrous.

Pertaining to, or characterized by, polyandry; mating with several males. "Polyandric societies." H. Spencer.

Belonging to the class Polyandria; having many stamens, or any number above twenty, inserted in the receptacle.

The possession by a woman of more than one husband at the same time; -- contrasted with Ant: monandry.

el. See Oxlip. (b) A bulbous flowering plant of the genus Narcissus (N. Tazetta, or N. polyanthus of some authors). See Illust. of Narcissus.

One who advocates polyarchy; -- opposed to monarchist. Cudworth.

A government by many persons, of whatever order or class. Cudworth.

Having more than one atom in the molecule; consisting of several atoms.

The act or practice of multiplying copies of one's own handwriting, or of manuscripts, by printing from stone, -- a species of lithography.

One of the dwellers in the Cistercian convent of Port Royal des Champs, near Paris, when it was the home of the Jansenists in the 17th century, among them being Arnauld, Pascal, and other famous scholars. Cf. Jansenist.

The act or process of portraying; description; delineation.

See Purveyance.

Foreseeing; prescient. [R.] Mrs. Oliphant.

The investing portion, or spherical envelope, surrounding the eccentric germinal spot of the germinal vesicle.

Same as Prothyalosoma.