| periphery |
the outside boundary or surface of something
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| peltate |
of a leaf shape; round, with the stem attached near the center of the lower surface rather than the margin (as a nasturtium leaf for example)
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| periphrastic |
circumlocutious: roundabout and unnecessarily wordy; "had a preference for circumlocutious (or circumlocutory) rather than forthright expression"; "A periphrastic study in a worn-out poetical fashion,/ Leaving one still with the intolerable wrestle/ With words and meanings."-T.S.Eliot; (`ambagious' is archaic)
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| periodontist |
a dentist specializing in diseases of the gums and other structure surrounding the teeth
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| Periplaneta |
cosmopolitan genus of large cockroaches
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