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Of or pertaining to, or like, a plasmodium; as, the plasmodial form of a life cycle.

Of or pertaining to the pleura and pericardium.

Happening, or done, after dinner; after-dinner; as, postprandial speeches.

Same as Precordial.

See Predial.

Of or pertaining to a repast, especially to dinner.

Situated in front of the heart; of or pertaining to the præcordia.

Consisting of land or farms; landed; as, predial estate; that is, real estate. Ayliffe.

Of or pertaining to a prelude; of the nature of a prelude; introductory. [R.]

Of or pertaining to a garrison; having a garrison. There are three presidial castles in this city. Howell.

First in order; primary; original; of earliest origin; as, primordial condition. "The primordial facts of our intelligent nature." Sir W. Hamilton.

Devotion to, or persistence in, conditions of the primordial state. H. Spencer.

At the beginning; under the first order of things; originally.

Proboscidate.

Of or pertaining to the propodialia, or the parts of the limbs to which they belong.

The bone of either the upper arm or the thing, the propodialia being the humerus and femur.

Prosodical.

Of or pertaining to a pseudopod, or to pseudopodia. See Illust. of Heliozoa.

taining to a radius or ray; consisting of, or like, radii or rays; radiated; as, (Bot.) radial projections; (Zoöl.) radial vessels or canals; (Anat.) the radial artery. Radial symmetry. (Biol.) See under Symmetry.

An engine, usually an internal-combustion engine of a certain type (the radial type) having several cylinders arranged radially like the spokes of a complete wheel. The semiradial engine has radiating cylinders on only one side of the crank shaft.