pyralid, n.
(pyralids)
usually tropical slender-bodied long-legged moth whose larvae are crop pests
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pyralid moth, n.
usually tropical slender-bodied long-legged moth whose larvae are crop pests
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pyramid, n.
(pyramids)
(stock market) a series of transactions in which the speculator increases his holdings by using the rising market value of those holdings as margin for further purchases
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pyramid, v.
(pyramided, pyramiding, pyramids)
freq. cnt. 1
enlarge one's holdings on an exchange on a continued rise by using paper profits as margin to buy additional amounts
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pyramid bugle, n.
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pyramid plant, n.
any of various tall perennial herbs constituting the genus Frasera; widely distributed in warm dry upland areas of California, Oregon, and Washington
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| American gentian |
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pyramid scheme, n.
a fraudulent scheme in which people are recruited to make payments to the person who recruited them while expecting to receive payments from the persons they recruit; when the number of new recruits fails to sustain the hierarchical payment structure the scheme collapses with most of the participants losing the money they put in
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pyramidal, adj.
pyramidal bone, n.
a wrist bone that articulates with the pisiform and hamate and lunate bones
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pyramidal motor system, n.
any of the important motor nerves on each side of the central nervous system that run from the sensorimotor areas of the cortex through the brainstem to motor neurons of the cranial nerve nuclei and the ventral root of the spinal cord
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pyramidal tent, n.
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pyramidal tract, n.
any of the important motor nerves on each side of the central nervous system that run from the sensorimotor areas of the cortex through the brainstem to motor neurons of the cranial nerve nuclei and the ventral root of the spinal cord
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pyramidic, adj.
pyramidical, adj.
pyramidically, adv.
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"the bush was trimmed pyramidically"
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pyramiding, n.
(pyramidings)
a fraudulent business practice involving some form of pyramid scheme e.g., the chain of distribution is artificially expanded by an excessive number of distributors selling to other distributors at progressively higher wholesale prices until retail prices are unnecessarily inflated
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pyre, n.
(pyres)
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pyrectic, adj.
pyrectic, n.
(pyrectics)
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pyrene, n.
(pyrenes)
the small hard nutlet of a drupe or drupelet; the seed and the hard endocarp that surrounds it
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pyrethrum, n.
(pyrethrums)
spring-flowering garden perennial of Asiatic origin having finely divided aromatic leaves and white to pink-purple flowers; source of an insecticide; sometimes placed in genus Chrysanthemum
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| Tanacetum coccineum |
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| painted daisy |
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white-flowered pyrethrum of Balkan area whose pinnate leaves are white and silky-hairy below; source of an insecticide; sometimes placed in genus Chrysanthemum
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| Chrysanthemum cinerariifolium |
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| Dalmatia pyrethrum |
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| Dalmatian pyrethrum |
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| Tanacetum cinerariifolium |
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pyrexia, n.
a rise in the temperature of the body; frequently a symptom of infection
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pyridine, n.
(pyridines)
a toxic colorless flammable liquid organic base with a disagreeable odor; usually derived from coal
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pyridoxal, n.
(pyridoxals)
a B vitamin that is essential for metabolism of amino acids and starch
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| pyridoxamine |
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pyridoxamine, n.
(pyridoxamines)
a B vitamin that is essential for metabolism of amino acids and starch
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pyridoxine, n.
(pyridoxines)
a B vitamin that is essential for metabolism of amino acids and starch
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pyriform area, n.
pear-shaped neural structure on either side of the brain in the rhinencephalon
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pyriform lobe, n.
pear-shaped neural structure on either side of the brain in the rhinencephalon
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| piriform lobe |
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| pyriform area |
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pyrilamine, n.
(pyrilamines)
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