| poller | One who polls; specifically: One who polls or lops trees. One who polls or cuts hair; a barber. One who extorts or plunders. Bacon. One who registers voters, or one who enters his name as a voter. Origin: From Poll. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| pollex | <anatomy> The first, or preaxial, digit of the fore limb, corresponding to the hallux in the hind limb; the thumb. <ornithology> In birds, the pollex is the joint which bears the bastard wing. Origin: L, the thumb. (21 Jun 1999) |
| pollex pedis | <anatomy, ornithology> The first, or preaxial, digit of the hind limb, corresponding to the pollux in the fore limb; the great toe; the hind toe of birds. Origin: NL, fr. L. Hallex, allex. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| pollicate | <zoology> Having a curved projection or spine on the inner side of a leg joint; said of insects. Origin: L. Pollex, pollicis, a thumb. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| pollicization | Construction of a substitute thumb. Origin: L. Pollex, thumb, + -ise, to make like, + -ation, state (05 Mar 2000) |
| pollinate | <zoology> Pollinose. <botany> Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| pollination | <plant biology> The transfer of pollen from the male organ, where it is formed, to the receptive region of a female organ, for example from anther to stigma. (09 Oct 1997) |
| polling | 1. The act of topping, lopping, or cropping, as trees or hedges. 2. Plunder, or extortion. 3. The act of voting, or of registering a vote. Polling booth, a temporary structure where the voting at an election is done; a polling place. See: Poll the head. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| polliniferous | <botany> Producing pollen; polleniferous. Origin: L. Pollen, -inis, pollen: cf. F. Pollinifere. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| pollinium | <plant biology> A cohering mass of pollen grains, transferred as a unit in pollination. (09 Oct 1997) |
| pollinose | <zoology> Having the surface covered with a fine yellow dust, like pollen. Origin: L. Pollen, -inis, dust. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| pollinosis | Hay fever excited by the pollen of various plants. Synonym: pollenosis. Origin: L. Pollen, pollen, + G. -osis, condition (05 Mar 2000) |
| polliwog | <zoology> A tadpole. Synonym: purwiggy and porwigle. Origin: OE. Polwigle. Cf. Poll head, and Wiggle. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| pollock | <zoology> A marine gadoid fish (Pollachius carbonarius), native both of the European and American coasts. It is allied to the cod, and like it is salted and dried. In England it is called coalfish, lob, podley, podling, pollack, etc. See: Pollack. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| pollodic | Synonym: panodic. Origin: G. Polloi, many, + hodos, way (05 Mar 2000) |