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 (el5os, 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, pen'dens (Lat.), hanging 
down from its support; Pend’ent, 
used by Grew for ANTHER. 
pendulous, pen’dulus (Lat.), hanging, 
pendent ; penduli’nus (Lat.), hav- 
ing the habit of being pendulous 
(De Candolle) ; Pendulifior’ae (los, 
Jloris, 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, « 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 = PINNATIFID; 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, @ nerve); 
pennive’nius (vena, a vein), pin- 
nately veined. 
pentacarpel’'lary (mévre, 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 ( + Coccus), 
with five cocci elastically splitting 
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away from the main axis ; penta- 
cy’clic (xvxhos, a circle), a flower 
with five whorls of members, cf. 
PENTAMEROUS 3 pentadac’tylous 
(ddxrvdovy, a finger), five-fingered, 
or with five finger-like divisions ; 
pentadel’phous, -phus (dde\pos, a 
brother), with five fraternities or 
bundles of stamens; pentag’onal 
(ywvla, an angle), with five angles ; 
Pentagyn'ia (yuv}, a woman), a 
Linnean order of plants having five 
pistils; pentag’ynous, with five 
pistils or styles; Pentake’nium = 
PENTACHAENIUM ; pentam’erous, 
-rus (wépos, a part), with parts in 
fives, as a corolla of five petals ; 
pentan’der (avijp, advdpds, 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 (gvdAj, a 
tribe), used of a hybrid which 
has five strains in its origin; 
pentaphyl'lous, -/us (dv\)or, a leaf), 
with five leaves; pentap’terous, 
-rus (wrépov, a wing), five-winged ; 
pen’tarch (apy, beginning), with 
five points of origin, applied to a 
stele; pentarrhi’nus, Henslow’s 
emendation of pentari’nus (dppyv, 
male), Necker’s term for PENT- 
ANDROUS; pentasep’alous, -lus 
(+ SEpatum), having five sepals; 
pentasper’mous (c7épua, a seed), 
five-seeded ; pentast’ichous (o7lxos, 
a row), in five vertical ranks ; 
Pen’toses, 4 name given to com- 
pounds resembling glucose, but 
having only five atomsof carbon 
in the molecule. 
Pep’o (Lat., a pumpkin), Pepon‘ida t ; 
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. 
