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fixes, is sometimes given to other related species of the same genus. [Spelt also poley.] Poly mountain. See Poly-mountain, in Vocabulary.

A combining form or prefix from Gr. poly`s, many; as, polygon, a figure of many angles; polyatomic, having many atoms; polychord, polyconic.

Same as Poly, n.

replaced by acid radicals; -- said of certain bases; as, calcium hydrate and glycerin are polyacid bases.

A polyacoustic instrument.

The art of multiplying or magnifying sounds.

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.

umbel. 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.