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paean
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noun
  1. Any loud and joyous song; a song of triumph.
  2. An enthusiastic expression of praise.
palladium
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noun (countable and uncountable; plural palladia or )
  1. (countable) a safeguard (from a statue of Athena that was believed to safeguard the ancient city of Troy).
  2. (uncountable) a metallic chemical element (symbol Pd) with an atomic number of 46.
pallium
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noun (pl=pallia, pl2=palliums)
  1. A woollen vestment conferred on archbishops by the Pope.
  2. (historic) A large cloak worn by Greek philosophers and teachers.
  3. (zoology) The mantle of a mollusc.
  4. (meteorology) A sheet of cloud covering the whole sky, especially nimbostratus.
  5. (anatomy) The cerebral cortex.
prothesis
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noun (prothes, es)
  1. The addition of a sound or syllable at the beginning of a word, as in nother from other ("a whole nother thing"), or Spanish esfera from Latin sphaera (sphere).
Pyxis
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proper noun
  1. (constellation) A spring constellation of the northern sky, said to resemble the compass of a ship. It is associated with the larger Argo Navis, although it was never offically part of that constellation.

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