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parent-in-law [parent-in-law 词源字典]: "A mother-in-law or father-in-law", Mid 19th cent. From parent + -in-law.[parent-in-law etymology, parent-in-law origin, 英语词源]
parotic: "Situated beside or near the ear; parotid", Mid 19th cent.; earliest use found in Robert Mayne (1808–1868). From para- + otic. Compare French parotique.
psephocrat: "An adherent or advocate of government by elected representatives", 1960s; earliest use found in The New Statesman. From psepho- + -crat, after psephocracy.
phlogistian: "A believer in the phlogistic theory of combustion", Late 18th cent.; earliest use found in Humphry Davy (1778–1829), chemist and inventor. From phlogiston + -ian.
proctosigmoidoscopy: "Visual examination of the rectum and sigmoid colon; use of a proctosigmoidoscope; an instance of this", 1930s; earliest use found in American Journal of Surgery.
paludic: "= paludal", Mid 19th cent.; earliest use found in George Gliddon (1809–1857). From classical Latin palūd-, palūs palus + -ic.
panada: "A simple dish consisting of bread boiled to a pulp and flavoured", Late 16th century: from Spanish and Portuguese, based on Latin panis 'bread'.
piciform: "Of or relating to the order Piciformes, which includes the woodpeckers and (in later use) the toucans, barbets, puffbirds, jacamars, and honeyguides", Late 19th cent.; earliest use found in Elliott Coues (1842–1889), naturalist and historian. From scientific Latin Picus, genus name ( Linnaeus Systema Naturae (ed. 10, 1758) I. 112, after earlier use by him in Systema Naturae; from classical Latin pīcus woodpecker: see below) + -iform, after scientific Latin Piciformes, suborder name ( E. Coues Key to North American Birds (ed. 2, 1884) iii. ii. 446; earlier as a superfamily name, A. H. Garrod 1874 in Proc. Zool. Soc. 123).
picine: "Originally: †of or relating to the former superfamily Picinae, which comprised the woodpeckers and related birds; piciform ( obsolete ). Later: of or relating to the subfamily Picinae, which comprises the typical woodpeckers", Late 19th cent.; earliest use found in Ibis: a quarterly journal of ornithology. From scientific Latin Picus, genus name + -ine, after scientific Latin Picinae, former superfamily name.
pied-à-terre: "A small flat, house, or room kept for occasional use", Early 19th century: French, literally 'foot to earth'.
pteridoid: "Of a plant: (originally) †belonging or allied to the ferns ( obsolete ); (now) specifically belonging to the subfamily Pteridoideae (family Pteridaceae)", Mid 19th cent.; earliest use found in The Pall Mall Gazette. From classical Latin pterid-, pteris pteris + -oid, after scientific Latin Pteris, genus name. In later use after scientific Latin Pteridoideae, family name.
protend: "To cause to project; to put forth, stretch forth; to thrust forward. Also figurative . Now rare", Late 15th cent.; earliest use found in Higden's Polychronicon. Partly from Anglo-Norman and Middle French protendre to extend, and partly from classical Latin prōtendere to stretch forth, extend, to hold out, to prolong, lengthen, in post-classical Latin also to portend (804, subsequently from 1250 in British sources) from prō- + tendere.
penster: "A person who uses a pen, especially in a trivial way; a petty writer, a literary hack. Usually humorous or mildly derogatory", Early 17th cent.; earliest use found in Randle Cotgrave (fl. 1587–?1630), lexicographer. From pen + -ster.
papaverous: "Characteristic of, related to, or resembling the poppy; papaveraceous. Also in extended use (now rare ): soporific", Mid 17th cent.; earliest use found in Thomas Browne (1605–1682), physician and author. From classical Latin papāver poppy (of unknown origin) + -ous.
pedality: "The structural characteristics of a soil as represented by the features of its constituent peds; especially the degree to which a soil is composed of discrete peds", 1960s. From ped + -ality.
pro bono publico: "For the public good", Latin.
peristeronic: "Relating to or concerned with pigeons; suggestive of pigeons", Mid 19th cent.; earliest use found in Rules Peristeronic Society. From Hellenistic Greek περιστερών dovecot (from ancient Greek περιστερά pigeon + -ών, suffix forming nouns) + -ic.
phreatic: "Relating to or denoting underground water in the zone of saturation (beneath the water table)", Late 19th century: from Greek phrear, phreat- 'a well' + -ic.
protophyll: "In a clubmoss: a primitive leaf-like structure produced on the upper surface of the protocorm or tuber", Late 19th cent.; earliest use found in Frederic Bower (1855–1948), botanist. From proto- + -phyll.
polioencephalitis: "Any of various inflammatory diseases of the grey matter of the brain, especially cerebral poliomyelitis (Wernicke's disease)", Late 19th cent. From German Poliencephalitis from ancient Greek πολιός grey + ἐγκέϕαλος brain + German -itis.