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Like a plate; consisting of plates.

A combining form from Gr. platy`s broad, wide, flat; as, platypus, platycephalous.

Broad-headed.

Of, relating to, or characterized by, platycnemism.

Lateral flattening of the tibia.

Flat at the anterior and concave at the posterior end; -- said of the centra of the vertebræ of some extinct dinouaurs.

A class of helminthes including the cestodes, or tapeworms, the trematodes, and the turbellarians. Called also flatworms.

Same as Platyelminthes. [Written also Platyelmia.]

An apparatus for measuring the capacity of condensers, or the inductive capacity of dielectrics.

An animal having broad feet, or a broad foot.

Same as Prosobranchiata.

A division of Pseudoneuroptera including the species which have four broad, flat wings, as the termites, or white-ants, and the stone flies (Perla).

The duck mole. See under Duck.

One of the Platyrhini.

nasal septum, thirty-six teeth, and usually a prehensile tail. See Monkey. [Written also Platyrrhini.]

A West Indian fish (Platyglossus radiatus), of the family Labridæ.

A Mexican prickly poppy (Argemone platyceras), which has migrated into California.

A handsome fish of Florida and the West Indies (Platyglossus radiatus). The name is applied also to the ladyfish (Harpe rufa) of the same region.

remata and is remarkable for laying eggs like a bird or reptile; -- called also duckbill, platypus, mallangong, mullingong, tambreet, and water mole. -- To make ducks and drakes, to throw a flat stone obliquely, so as to make it rebound repeatedly from the surface of the water, raising a succession of jets; hence: To…

tiful bombycid moths, with transparent spots on the wings; as the American Cecropia moth (Platysamia cecropia), and the European species (Saturnia pavonia). -- Emperor paper. See under Paper. -- Purple emperor (Zoöl.), a large, strong British butterfly (Apatura iris).