| ADAPTOGEN | • adaptogen n. (Medicine) Any natural herbal substance (such as ginseng) that is supposed to help the body adapt to… • ADAPTOGEN n. any of various natural substances used in herbal medicine as regulators. |
| CARPETBAG | • carpetbag n. A traveling bag made from scraps of carpet and widely used in the United States (and elsewhere) in the… • carpetbag v. (Chiefly US) To come to a place or organisation with which one has no previous connection with the sole… • carpetbag adj. (Chiefly US) Having the characteristics of carpetbaggers. |
| PAGEANTRY | • pageantry n. A pageant; a colourful show or display, as in a pageant. • PAGEANTRY n. splendid display; pompous spectacle. |
| PAGINATED | • paginated v. Simple past tense and past participle of paginate. • paginated adj. (Of text) Whose pages have been numbered. • PAGINATE v. to mark with consecutive numbers. |
| PAGINATES | • paginates v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of paginate. • PAGINATE v. to mark with consecutive numbers. |
| PARENTAGE | • parentage n. The identity and nature of one’s parents, and in particular, the legitimacy of one’s birth. • parentage n. The social quality of one’s class in society. • parentage n. (Figurative) Origin; derivation. |
| PARGASITE | • pargasite n. (Mineralogy) A complex inosilicate mineral of the amphibole group. • PARGASITE n. a dark green aluminous variety of amphibole, or hornblende. |
| PASTURAGE | • pasturage n. A pasture; land that is used for pasture. • pasturage n. The grass or other vegetation eaten by livestock and found in a pasture. • pasturage n. The right to graze livestock on a pasture. |
| PATRONAGE | • patronage n. The act of providing approval and support; backing; championship. • patronage n. Customers collectively; clientele; business. • patronage n. The act or state of being a customer of some business. |
| PENTAGRAM | • pentagram n. The shape of a five-pointed star constructed of five intersecting lines meeting at the vertices, such… • PENTAGRAM n. a five-pointed star, formerly used as a mystic or magical symbol. |
| PLANTAGES | • plantages n. Plural of plantage. • PLANTAGE n. (Shakespeare) plants in general. |
| PROPAGATE | • propagate v. (Transitive, of animals or plants) To cause to continue or multiply by generation, or successive production. • propagate v. (Transitive) To cause to spread to extend; to impel or continue forward in space. • propagate v. (Transitive) To spread from person to person; to extend the knowledge of; to originate and spread; to… |
| SCAPEGOAT | • scapegoat n. In the Mosaic Day of Atonement ritual, a goat symbolically imbued with the sins of the people, and sent… • scapegoat n. Someone unfairly blamed or punished for some failure. • scapegoat v. (Transitive, intransitive) To unfairly blame or punish someone for some failure; to make a scapegoat of. |
| TAMPONAGE | • tamponage n. (Medicine) The use of a tampon; a tamponade. • TAMPONAGE n. the surgical use of a tampon, also TAMPONADE. |
| TRAGELAPH | • tragelaph n. Any member of the genus Tragelaphus of spiral-horned antelopes. • TRAGELAPH n. (Greek) a fabulous animal, part goat, part stag. |