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A coarse American composite weed (Polymnia Uvedalia).

as a confection and medicinal purposes. Licorice fern (Bot.), a name of several kinds of polypody which have rootstocks of a sweetish flavor. -- Licorice sugar. (Chem.) See Glycyrrhizin. -- Licorice weed (Bot.), the tropical plant Scapania aulcis. -- Mountain licorice (Bot.), a kind of clover (Trifolium alpinum), f…

nus of Merostomata. It includes only a few species from the East Indies, and one (Limulus polyphemus) from the Atlantic coast of North America. Called also Molucca crab, king crab, horseshoe crab, and horsefoot.

Stone-producing; -- said of polyps which form coral.

A flowerless plant (Marchantia polymorpha), having an irregularly lobed, spreading, and forking frond.

The peculiar larva of Polygordius. See Polygordius.

An unaccompanied polyphonic song, in four, five, or more parts, set to secular words, but full of counterpoint and imitation, and adhering to the old church modes. Unlike the freer glee, it is best sung with several voices on a part. See Glee.

One of the dark race inhabiting principally the islands of Eastern Polynesia. Also used adjectively.

n oriole (Oriolus kundoo), native of India. -- Mango fish (Zoöl.), a fish of the Ganges (Polynemus risua), highly esteemed for food. It has several long, slender filaments below the pectoral fins. It appears about the same time with the mango fruit, in April and May, whence the name. -- Mango tree (Bot.), an East Ind…

ed by distilling a mixture of sugar and lime; -- so called because formerly regarded as a polymeric modification of acetone.

A white, amorphous, insoluble substance regarded as a polymeric variety of chloral.

A polymeric modification of acrolein obtained by heating it with caustic potash. It is a crystalline substance having an aromatic odor.

A white crystalline substance isomeric with, and obtained from, acetic aldehyde by polymerization, and reconvertible into the same.

or designating, an acid known only in its salts (the metatungstates) and properly called polytungstic, or pyrotungstic, acid.

ce inhabiting the Micronesian Islands. They are supposed to be a mixed race, derived from Polynesians and Papuans.

A genus of plants (Polygala) of many species. The common European P. vulgaris was supposed to have the power of producing a flow of milk in nurses.

derision; mimicking; derisive. Mocking bird (Zoöl.), a North American singing bird (Mimus polyglottos), remarkable for its exact imitations of the notes of other birds. Its back is gray; the tail and wings are blackish, with a white patch on each wing; the outer tail feathers are partly white. The name is also applied…

The possession by a woman of only one husband at the same time; -- contrasted with polyandry.

A prefix signifying one, single, alone; as, monocarp, monopoly; (Chem.) indicating that a compound contains one atom, radical, or group of that to the name of which it is united; as, monoxide, monosulphide, monatomic, etc.

is confined to one part, instead of being shared by all the parts as in the style called polyphonic.