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The egg-shaped fleshy fruit of a West Indian plant (Bromelia Pinguin) of the Pineapple family; also, the plant itself, which has rigid, pointed, and spiny-toothed leaves, and is used for hedges. [Written also pinguin.] Arctic penguin (Zoöl.), the great auk. See Auk.

genus of large, stalked crinoids, of which several species occur in deep water among the West Indies and elsewhere.

Properly, printed calico, whether Oriental or of fanciful design with flowers, etc., in Western work. Hence, as extended in English, material of a similar character.

polyp or zooid of the compound Hydrozoa Anthozoa, etc.; also, an individual, in the narrowest sense, among the higher animals. Haeckel. True corms, composed of united personæ . . . usually arise by gemmation, . . . yet in sponges and corals occasionally by fusion of several originally distinct persons. Encyc. Brit. Ar…

A group of simple marine organisms, usually classed as the lowest of the sponges. They have inflated hollow bodies.

A West African pie (Ptilostomus Senegalensis).

A small child; especially, a negro or mulatto infant. [U.S. & West Indies]

on pea (Bot.), the seed of Cajanus Indicus; a kind of pulse used for food in the East and West Indies; also, the plant itself. -- Pigeon plum (Bot.), the edible drupes of two West African species of Chrysobalanus (C. ellipticus and C. luteus). -- Pigeon tremex. (Zoöl.) See under Tremex. -- Pigeon wood (Bot.), a name…

A West Indian name for the prickly pear (Opuntia); -- called also pimploes.

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

is whitish, covered with brown blotches having black margins. Called also bull snake. The Western pine snake (P. Sayi) is chestnut-brown, mottled with black and orange. -- Pine tree (Bot.), a tree of the genus Pinus; pine. -- Pine-tree money, money coined in Massachusetts in the seventeenth century, and so called fro…

An annual South American and West Indian plant (Spigelia Anthelmia).

of Southern Europe, and P. Parryana, cembroides, edulis, and monophylla, the nut pines of Western North America.

of Southern Europe, and P. Parryana, cembroides, edulis, and monophylla, the nut pines of Western North America.

of heaven, down Into this deep. Milton. Enterprises of great pitch and moment. Shak. To lowest pitch of abject fortune. Milton. He lived when learning was at its highest pitch. Addison. The exact pitch, or limits, where temperance ends. Sharp.

on; a piece of ground planted with trees or useful plants; esp., in the United States and West Indies, a large estate appropriated to the production of the more important crops, and cultivated by laborers who live on the estate; as, a cotton plantation; a coffee plantation.

position of a planter, or the management of a plantation, as in the United States or the West Indies.

A member of the lowest class in the military academy at West Point. [Cant, U.S.]

e, a vertically faced member immediately below the circular base of a column; also, the lowest member of a pedestal; hence, in general, the lowest member of a base; a sub-base; a block upon which the moldings of an architrave or trim are stopped at the bottom. See Illust. of Column.

Personal property and effects; baggage or luggage. [Slang, Southwestern U.S.]