peltato-digitatus 
Pepsin 
Pelta’to-digita’tus, a digitate leaf 
with the petiole much enlarged 
at the insertion of the leaflets; 
peltid’eus, pel'tiform (forma, shape), 
orbicular or buckler-shaped, as the 
apothecia of many Lichens or the 
caps of Agarics; peltiner’ved, pel- 
tiner'vis, -vius (nervus, a nerve), 
with ribs arranged as in a peltate 
leaf ; peltoi’deus (eZdos, resemblance) 
= PELTIDEUS. 
pel'viform, pelviform’is (pelvis,a basin, 
Jorma, shape), basin-shaped, formed 
like a shallow cup. 
pen’cilled, marked with fine distinct 
lines. 
pen’dent, en’dens (Lat.), banging 
down from its support ; Pend’ent, 
used by Grew for ANTHER. 
pen’dulous, yen’dulus (Lat.), hanging, 
pendent ; penduli’nus (Lat.), hav- 
ing the habit of being pendulous 
(De Candolle) ; Penduliflor’ae (flos, 
Jfloris, a flower), Delpino’s term for 
wind-fertilized pendulous flowers. 
penic’ellate, an error for the next. 
penic'illate, penicilla’tus (penicillus, 
a little brush), pencil-shaped ; 
penicil’liform, penicilliform’is 
(forma, shape), shaped like an 
artist’s pencil ; Penicil/lium, a tuft 
of hairs. 
pen’nate, penna’tus (Lat. winged) = 
PINNATE; pennaticis’sus ( cissus, 
cut), with incisions of a leaf in a 
pinnate manner; pennat‘ifid, pen- 
natif'idus = PINNATISID; pen’‘ni- 
form (forma, shape), with ribs as 
in a pinnate leaf, but the upper 
segments confluent at the apex, as 
in the date palm; penniner’ved, 
penniner’vis (nervus, a nerve); 
pennive’nius (vena, a vein), pin- 
nately veined. 
pentacarpel’lary (évre, five + CAR- 
PELLARY ), having five carpels; 
pentacam’arus (+ CAMARUS), with 
five loculi; Pentachae’nium or 
Pentake’nium (+ ACHENIUM), hav- 
ing the structure of a cremocarp, 
but with five carpels instead of two ; 
pentacoc’cous, -cus ( + Cocous), 
with five cocci elastically splitting 
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away from the main axis; penta- 
cy’clic (x’xdos, a circle), a flower 
with five whorls of members, cf. 
PENTAMEROUS ; pentadac’tylous 
(Sdxrvdov, a finger), five-fingered, 
or with five finger-like divisions ; 
pentadel’phous, -phus (ddeddos, a 
brother), with five fraternities or 
bundles of stamens; pentag’onal 
(ywvla, an angle), with five angles ; 
Pentagyn'ia (yuwvy, a woman), a 
Linnean order of plants having five 
pistils; pentag’ynous, with five 
pistils or styles; Pentake’nium = 
PENTACHAENIUM;  pentam’erous, 
-rus (wépos, » part), with parts in 
fives, as a corolla of five petals ; 
pentan’der (dvijp, dvdpds, a man), of 
five stamens; Pentan’dria, a Lin- 
nean class of plants possessing five 
stamens, the largest in that system ; 
pentan’drous, five-stamened ; pen- 
tan’gular, (+ ANGULAR) five-angled, 
pentagonal; pentapet/alous, -/us 
(3éradov, a flower-leaf), with five 
petals; pentaphylet’ic (dvAj, ‘a 
tribe), used of a hybrid which 
has five strains in its origin; 
pentaphyl'lous, -/us (¢v))ov, a leaf), 
with five leaves; pentap’terous, 
-rus (wrépov, a wing), five-winged ; 
pen'tarch (dpy}, beginning), with 
five points of origin, applied to a 
stele; pentarrhi’nus, Henslow’s 
emendation of pentari’nus (dppyy, 
male), Necker’s term for PENT- 
ANDROUS; pentasep’alous, -lus 
(+ SzpaLum), having five sepals’; 
pentasper’mous (c7épua, a seed), 
five-seeded ; pentast’ichous (c7lyos, 
a row), in five vertical ranks; 
Pen'toses, a name given to com- 
pounds resembling glucose, but 
having only five atomsof carbon 
in the molecule. 
Pep’o (Lat., a pumpkin), Pepon’ida ft; 
Peponid’ium +, a gourd fruit, a one- 
celled, many-seeded, inferior fruit, 
with parietal placentas and pulpy 
interior. 
Pep’sin (réyis, cooking, digestion), 
the digestive “principle or peptic 
enzyme, 
