paperback
1: (of books) having a flexible binding [syn: {paperbacked}] n : a book with paper covers [syn: {paperback book}, {paper-back book}, {softback book}, {softback}, {soft-cover book}, {soft-cover}]
paperback book
1: a book with paper covers [syn: {paper-back book}, {paperback}, {softback book}, {softback}, {soft-cover book}, {soft-cover}]
paperbacked
1: (of books) having a flexible binding [syn: {paperback}]
paperbark birch
1: small American birch with peeling white bark often worked into e.g. baskets or toy canoes [syn: {American white birch}, {paper birch}, {canoe birch}, {Betula cordifolia}, {Betula papyrifera}]
paperboard
1: a cardboard suitable for making posters [syn: {poster board}, {posterboard}]
paperboy
1: a boy who sells or delivers newspapers
paperclip
1: a wire or plastic clip for holding sheets of paper together; "the paper clip was invented in 1900" [syn: {paper clip}, {gem clip}]
paperer
1: one whose occupation is decorating walls with wallpaper [syn: {paperhanger}]
paperhanger
1: someone who passes bad checks or counterfeit paper money 2: one whose occupation is decorating walls with wallpaper [syn: {paperer}]
paperhanging
1: the application of wallpaper [syn: {papering}]
papering
1: the application of wallpaper [syn: {paperhanging}]
paperknife
1: dull knife used to cut open the envelopes in which letters are mailed or to slit uncut pages of books [syn: {letter opener}, {paper knife}] [also: {paperknives} (pl)]
paperlike
1: of or like paper [syn: {chartaceous}, {papery}]
papers
1: writing that provides information (especially information of an official nature) [syn: {document}, {written document}]
paperweight
1: a weight used to hold down a stack of papers
paperwork
1: work that involves handling papers: forms or letters or reports etc.
papery
1: thin and paperlike; "papery leaves"; "wasps that make nests of papery material" 2: of or like paper [syn: {chartaceous}, {paperlike}]
Paphiopedilum
1: horticulturally important genus of mainly terrestrial orchids including many hybrids; southeastern Asia and Indonesia to Philippines and Solomon Islands; Paphiopedilum species sometimes included in...
papier-mache
1: a substance made from paper pulp that can be molded when went and painted when dry
Papilionaceae
1: leguminous plants whose flowers have butterfly-shaped corollas; commonly included in the family Leguminosae [syn: {family Papilionacea}]
Papilionoideae
1: alternative name used in some classification systems for the family Papilionaceae [syn: {subfamily Papilionoideae}]
papilla
1: a small nipple-shaped protuberance concerned with taste, touch, or smell; "the papillae of the tongue" 2: a small projection of tissue at the base of a hair or tooth or feather [also: {papillae} (p...
papillary
1: of or relating to or resembling papilla [syn: {papillose}]
papillary muscle
1: any of several muscles associated with the atrioventricular valves; "the papillary muscles contract during systole to prevent regurgitation of blood into the atria"
papillary tumor
1: a benign epithelial tumor forming a rounded mass [syn: {papilloma}, {villoma}, {papillary tumour}]
papillary tumour
1: a benign epithelial tumor forming a rounded mass [syn: {papilloma}, {villoma}, {papillary tumor}]
papillate
1: resembling or covered with papillae
papilledema
1: swelling of the optic disc (where the optic nerve enters the eyeball); usually associated with an increase in intraocular pressure
papilloma
1: a benign epithelial tumor forming a rounded mass [syn: {villoma}, {papillary tumor}, {papillary tumour}] [also: {papillomata} (pl)]
papillon
1: small slender toy spaniel with erect ears and a black-spotted brown to white coat
papillose
1: of or relating to or resembling papilla [syn: {papillary}]
Papio
1: baboons [syn: {genus Papio}]
Papio ursinus
1: grayish baboon of southern and eastern Africa [syn: {chacma}, {chacma baboon}]
papist
1: of or relating to or supporting Romanism; "the Roman Catholic Church" [syn: {Roman}, {r.c.}, {Romanist}, {romish}, {Roman Catholic}, {popish}, {papistic}, {papistical}] n : a Roman Catholic who is ...
papistic
1: of or relating to or supporting Romanism; "the Roman Catholic Church" [syn: {Roman}, {r.c.}, {Romanist}, {romish}, {Roman Catholic}, {popish}, {papist}, {papistical}]
papistical
1: of or relating to or supporting Romanism; "the Roman Catholic Church" [syn: {Roman}, {r.c.}, {Romanist}, {romish}, {Roman Catholic}, {popish}, {papist}, {papistic}]
papoose
1: an American Indian infant [syn: {pappoose}]
papoose root
1: tall herb of eastern North America and Asia having blue berrylike fruit and a thick knotty rootstock formerly used medicinally [syn: {blue cohosh}, {blueberry root}, {papooseroot}, {squawroot}, {sq...
papooseroot
1: tall herb of eastern North America and Asia having blue berrylike fruit and a thick knotty rootstock formerly used medicinally [syn: {blue cohosh}, {blueberry root}, {papoose root}, {squawroot}, {s...
papovavirus
1: any of a group of animal viruses associated with or causing papillomas or polyomas
pappa
1: an informal term for a father; probably derived from baby talk [syn: {dad}, {dada}, {daddy}, {pa}, {papa}, {pater}, {pop}]
pappataci fever
1: a mild viral disease transmitted by the bite of the sand fly Phlebotomus papatasii [syn: {sandfly fever}, {phlebotomus}]
pappoose
1: an American Indian infant [syn: {papoose}]
pappose
1: (of plants such as dandelions and thistles) having pappi or tufts of featherlike hairs or delicate bristles
pappus
1: calyx composed of scales or bristles or featherlike hairs in plants of the Compositae such as thistles and dandelions [also: {pappi} (pl)]
paprika
1: plant bearing large mild thick-walled usually bell-shaped fruits; the principal salad peppers [syn: {sweet pepper}, {bell pepper}, {pimento}, {pimiento}, {sweet pepper plant}, {Capsicum annuum gros...
paprika sauce
1: veloute sauce with sauteed chopped onion and paprika and cream [syn: {Hungarian sauce}]
Paprilus
1: a genus of Stromateidae [syn: {genus Paprilus}]
Paprilus alepidotus
1: butterfish up to a foot long of Atlantic waters from Chesapeake Bay to Argentina [syn: {harvestfish}]
Papua
1: a Pacific island north of Australia; the 2nd largest island in the world; governed by Australia and Indonesia [syn: {New Guinea}]
Papua New Guinea
1: a parliamentary democracy on the eastern half of the island of New Guinea [syn: {Independent State of Papua New Guinea}]
Papuan
1: of or relating to Papua or its people or language; "Papuan native crafts"; "Papuan vowels" n : any of the indigenous languages spoken in Papua New Guinea or New Britain or the Solomon Islands that ...
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Papuan language
1: any of the indigenous languages spoken in Papua New Guinea or New Britain or the Solomon Islands that are not Malayo-Polynesian languages [syn: {Papuan}]
papule
1: a small inflamed elevation of skin that is nonsuppurative (as in chicken pox)
papulovesicle
1: a papule that changes into a blister [syn: {vesicopapule}]
papyrus
1: paper made from the papyrus plant by cutting it in strips and pressing it flat; used by ancient Egyptians and Greeks and Romans 2: tall sedge of the Nile valley yielding fiber that served many purp...
par
1: (golf) the standard number of strokes set for each hole on a golf course, or for the entire course; "a par-5 hole"; "par for this course is 72" 2: a state of being essentially equal or equivalent; ...
par excellence
1: to a degree of excellence; "he is the honest politician par excellence"
par value
1: the value of a security that is set by the company issuing it; unrelated to market value [syn: {face value}, {nominal value}]
para
1: (obstetrics) the number of live-born children a woman has delivered; "the parity of the mother must be considered"; "a bipara is a woman who has given birth to two children" [syn: {parity}] 2: 100 ...
para aminobenzoic acid
1: a metabolic acid found in yeast and liver cells; used to make dyes and drugs and sunblockers [syn: {PABA}]
para I
1: (obstetrics) woman who has been delivered of a child for the first time [syn: {primipara}]
Para River
1: an estuary in northern Brazil into which the Tocantins River flows [syn: {Para}]
para rubber tree
1: deciduous tree of the Amazon and Orinoco Rivers having leathery leaves and fragrant yellow-white flowers; the rubber tree usually cultivated in plantations; chief source of Para rubber [syn: {caout...
parable
1: a short moral story (often with animal characters) [syn: {fable}, {allegory}, {apologue}] 2: (New Testament) any of the stories told by Jesus to convey his religious message; "the parable of the pr...
parabola
1: a plane curve formed by the intersection of a right circular cone and a plane parallel to an element of the curve
parabolic
1: resembling or expressed by parables [syn: {parabolical}] 2: having the form of a parabola [syn: {parabolical}]
parabolic geometry
1: geometry based on Euclid's axioms: e.g., only one line can be drawn through a point parallel to another line [syn: {elementary geometry}, {Euclidean geometry}]
parabolic reflector
1: a concave reflector used to produce a parallel beam when the source is placed at its focus or to focus an incoming parallel beam [syn: {paraboloid reflector}]
parabolical
1: resembling or expressed by parables [syn: {parabolic}] 2: having the form of a parabola [syn: {parabolic}]
paraboloid
1: a surface having parabolic sections parallel to a single coordinate axis and elliptic sections perpendicular to that axis
paraboloid reflector
1: a concave reflector used to produce a parallel beam when the source is placed at its focus or to focus an incoming parallel beam [syn: {parabolic reflector}]
Paracelsus
1: Swiss physician who introduced treatments of particular illnesses based on his observation and experience; he saw illness as having an external cause (rather than an imbalance of humors) and replac...
paracentesis
1: centesis of the belly to remove fluid for diagnosis [syn: {abdominocentesis}]
paracervical block
1: regional anesthesia resulting from the injection of a local anesthetic on each side of the cervix; used during labor and childbirth
Paracheirodon
1: a genus of Characidae [syn: {genus Paracheirodon}]
Paracheirodon axelrodi
1: small bright red and blue aquarium fish from streams in Brazil and Columbia [syn: {cardinal tetra}]
parachute
1: rescue equipment consisting of a device that fills with air and retards your fall [syn: {chute}] v : jump from an airplane and descend with a parachute [syn: {jump}]
parachute jumper
1: a person who jumps from aircraft using a parachute [syn: {parachutist}, {parachuter}]
parachuter
1: a person who jumps from aircraft using a parachute [syn: {parachutist}, {parachute jumper}]
parachuting
1: descent with a parachute; "he had done a lot of parachuting in the army" [syn: {jump}]
parachutist
1: a person who jumps from aircraft using a parachute [syn: {parachuter}, {parachute jumper}]
paracosm
1: a prolonged fantasy world invented by children; can have a definite geography and language and history
parade
1: a ceremonial procession including people marching 2: an extended (often showy) succession of persons or things; "a parade of strollers on the mall"; "a parade of witnesses" 3: a visible display; "s...
parader
1: walks with regular or stately step [syn: {marcher}]
paradiddle
1: the sound of a drum (especially a snare drum) beaten rapidly and continuously [syn: {roll}, {drum roll}]
paradigm
1: systematic arrangement of all the inflected forms of a word 2: a standard or typical example; "he is the prototype of good breeding"; "he provided America with an image of the good father" [syn: {p...
paradigmatic
1: of or relating to a grammatical paradigm; "paradigmatic inflection" 2: of or relating to a typical example; "paradigmatic learning" 3: related as members of a substitution class; "paradigmatic word...
paradisaic
1: relating to or befitting paradise; "together in that paradisal place"; "paradisiacal innocense" [syn: {paradisiacal}, {paradisiac}, {paradisaical}, {paradisal}] 2: resembling paradise; causing happ...
paradisaical
1: relating to or befitting paradise; "together in that paradisal place"; "paradisiacal innocense" [syn: {paradisiacal}, {paradisiac}, {paradisaic}, {paradisal}] 2: resembling paradise; causing happin...
paradisal
1: relating to or befitting paradise; "together in that paradisal place"; "paradisiacal innocense" [syn: {paradisiacal}, {paradisiac}, {paradisaical}, {paradisaic}] 2: resembling paradise; causing hap...
paradise
1: any place of complete bliss and delight and peace [syn: {eden}, {nirvana}, {heaven}, {promised land}, {Shangri-la}] 2: (Christianity) the abode of righteous souls after death
paradise flower
1: tropical shrub or small tree having showy yellow to orange-red flowers; sometimes placed in genus Poinciana [syn: {pride of barbados}, {flamboyant tree}, {Caesalpinia pulcherrima}, {Poinciana pulch...
paradise tree
1: medium to large tree of tropical North and South America having odd-pinnate leaves and long panicles of small pale yellow flowers followed by scarlet fruits [syn: {bitterwood}, {Simarouba glauca}]
paradisiac
1: relating to or befitting paradise; "together in that paradisal place"; "paradisiacal innocense" [syn: {paradisiacal}, {paradisaical}, {paradisaic}, {paradisal}] 2: resembling paradise; causing happ...
paradisiacal
1: relating to or befitting paradise; "together in that paradisal place"; "paradisiacal innocense" [syn: {paradisiac}, {paradisaical}, {paradisaic}, {paradisal}] 2: resembling paradise; causing happin...
paradisial
1: resembling paradise; causing happiness; "elysian peace"; "a paradisal place without work or struggle"; "paradisial isles"; "an age of paradisiacal happiness" [syn: {elysian}, {paradisiacal}, {parad...
paradox
1: (logic) a self-contradiction; "`I always lie' is a paradox because if it is true it must be false"
paradoxical
1: seemingly contradictory but nonetheless possibly true; "it is paradoxical that standing is more tiring than walking" [syn: {self-contradictory}]
paradoxical sleep
1: a recurring sleep state during which dreaming occurs; a state of Rapid Eye Movements during sleep [syn: {rapid eye movement sleep}, {REM sleep}, {rapid eye movement}, {REM}]
paradoxically
1: in a paradoxical manner; "paradoxically, ice ages seem to occur when the sun gets hotter"
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