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periapt [periapt 词源字典]: "An item worn as a charm or amulet", Late 16th century: from French périapte, from Greek periapton, from peri 'around' + haptein 'fasten'.[periapt etymology, periapt origin, 英语词源]
peterman: "A thief or safe-breaker", Early 19th century: from slang peter 'a trunk or safe' + man.
pettitoe: "A pig's foot, especially as an article of food; a pig's trotter. Formerly also: †(in plural) the edible entrails of an animal, e.g. a calf, sheep, pig, goose, etc.; offal, giblets ( obsolete )", Mid 16th cent.; earliest use found in John Bradford (c1510–1555), evangelical preacher and martyr. From Middle French petitoye goose giblets, offal of other animals from petit small + oie goose; later reinterpreted as from petty + toe.
pectoralis: "Any of the major pectoral muscles in tetrapods; specifically = pectoralis major", Early 17th cent.; earliest use found in Helkiah Crooke (1576–1648), physician and anatomist. From post-classical Latin pectoralis, use as noun (short for pectoralis musculus) of classical Latin pectorālis, adjective.
phellogen: "The layer of meristematic cells from which phellem is formed; the cork cambium", Late 19th cent.; earliest use found in Alfred Bennett (1833–1902), botanist and publisher. From German Phellogen from phello- (in Phelloderma) + -gen.
piacular: "Making or requiring atonement", Early 17th century: from Latin piacularis, from piaculum 'expiation', from piare 'appease'.
pilgarlic: "Originally: a bald head; a bald-headed person. In later use also: a pitiable, lowly, or foolish person; a shabby or unkempt person. Frequently used without article, as though a proper name", Early 16th cent.; earliest use found in John Skelton (c1460–1529), poet. In some forms apparently partly from pilled + garlic and partly from peeled + garlic; in some forms apparently partly from pill + garlic and partly from peel + garlic.
pleurodynia: "Severe pain in the muscles between the ribs or in the diaphragm", Early 19th century: from pleuro- 'of the pleura' + Greek odunē 'pain'.
plew: "A beaver skin, used as a standard unit of value in the fur trade", Mid 19th century: from Canadian French pélu 'hairy', from French poil 'hair, bristle'.
peroneus longus: "A muscle of the lateral side of the leg which arises from the fibula, inserts on to the cuneiform and first metatarsal bones via a long tendon passing under the foot, and serves to extend the ankle and evert the foot", Late 17th cent. From scientific Latin peroneus longus from post-classical Latin peroneus + classical Latin longus.
pollex: "The innermost digit of a forelimb, especially the thumb in primates", Mid 19th century: from Latin, literally 'thumb or big toe'.
profundus: "A deep-seated muscle; specifically the flexor digitorum profundus muscle, which arises from the ulna, flexes the distal phalanges of the fingers, and is situated beneath the muscle which flexes the middle phalanges", Late 17th cent. From classical Latin profundus (originally in post-classical Latin or scientific Latin musculus profundus).
peroneus brevis: "A muscle of the lateral side of the leg that arises from the fibula, inserts on to the fifth metatarsal bone, and acts to evert the foot", Early 18th cent.; earliest use found in James Drake (d. 1707), political and medical writer. From scientific Latin peroneus brevis from post-classical Latin peroneus + classical Latin brevis short.
pogey: "Unemployment or welfare benefit", Late 19th century: of unknown origin.
pooter: "A bottle for collecting small insects and other invertebrates, having one tube through which they are sucked into the bottle and another, protected by muslin or gauze, which is sucked", 1930s: said to be from the name of William Poos (1891–1987), American entomologist.
portolan: "A book of sailing directions with charts and descriptions of harbours and coasts", Mid 19th century: from Italian portolano, from porto 'harbour'.
posology: "The part of medicine concerned with dosage", Early 19th century: from French posologie, from Greek posos 'how much' + -logia (see -logy).
pyriformis: "A gluteal (buttock) muscle, which arises from the sacrum and the ischium or sacrotuberous ligament and inserts into the greater trochanter of the femur, serving in humans to rotate the thigh laterally", Late 17th cent. From post-classical Latin pyriformis pyriform.
pyriform: "Pear-shaped", Mid 18th century: from modern Latin pyriformis, from pyrum (misspelling of pirum 'pear') + -iform.
periastron: "The point nearest to a star in the path of a body orbiting that star", Mid 19th century: from peri- 'around' + Greek astron 'star', on the pattern of perigee and perihelion.