Index of English words, starting with "pl"

(1) - Plantigrade (n.) A plantigrade animal, or one that walks or steps on the sole of the foot, as man, and the bears.
(2) - Plantigrade (a.) Having the foot so formed that the heel touches the ground when the leg is upright.
(3) - Plantigrade (a.) Walking on the sole of the foot; pertaining to the plantigrades.

(1) - Planula (n.) The very young, free-swimming larva of the coelenterates. It usually has a flattened oval or oblong form, and is entirely covered with cilia.
(2) - Planula (n.) In embryonic development, a vesicle filled with fluid, formed from the morula by the divergence of its cells in such a manner as to give rise to a central space, around which the cells arrange themselves as an envelope; an embryonic form intermediate between the morula and gastrula. Sometimes used as synonymous with gastrula.

(1) - Plaque (n.) Any flat, thin piece of metal, clay, ivory, or the like, used for ornament, or for painting pictures upon, as a slab, plate, dish, or the like, hung upon a wall; also, a smaller decoration worn on the person, as a brooch.

(1) - Plash (n.) The branch of a tree partly cut or bent, and bound to, or intertwined with, other branches.
(2) - Plash (v. t.) To cut partly, or to bend and intertwine the branches of; as, to plash a hedge.
(3) - Plash (v. t.) To splash or sprinkle with coloring matter; as, to plash a wall in imitation of granite.
(4) - Plash (v. t.) To splash, as water.
(5) - Plash (v. i.) To dabble in water; to splash.
(6) - Plash (v.) A dash of water; a splash.
(7) - Plash (v.) A small pool of standing water; a puddle.