Phylogeny (n.) The history of genealogical development; the race history of an animal or vegetable type; the historic exolution of the phylon or tribe, in distinction from ontogeny, or the development of the individual organism, and from biogenesis, or life development generally.
Phylogenetic (a.) Relating to phylogenesis, or the race history of a type of organism.
Phyla (pl. ) of Phylon
Phylon (n.) A tribe.
Phyla (pl. ) of Phylum
Phylum (n.) One of the larger divisions of the animal kingdom; a branch; a grand division.
Phymata (pl. ) of Phyma
Phyma (n.) A tubercle on any external part of the body.
Physa (n.) A genus of fresh-water Pulmonifera, having reversed spiral shells. See Pond snail, under Pond.
Physalia (n.) A genus of large oceanic Siphonophora which includes the Portuguese man-of-war.
Physaliae (n. pl.) An order of Siphonophora which includes Physalia.
Physemaria (n. pl.) A group of simple marine organisms, usually classed as the lowest of the sponges. They have inflated hollow bodies.
Physeter (n.) The genus that includes the sperm whale.
Physeter (n.) A filtering machine operated by air pressure.
Physianthropy (n.) The philosophy of human life, or the doctrine of the constitution and diseases of man, and their remedies.
Physic (n.) The art of healing diseases; the science of medicine; the theory or practice of medicine.
Physic (n.) A specific internal application for the cure or relief of sickness; a remedy for disease; a medicine.
Physic (n.) Specifically, a medicine that purges; a cathartic.
Physic (n.) A physician.
Physiced (imp. & p. p.) of Physic
Physicking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Physic
Physic (v. t.) To treat with physic or medicine; to administer medicine to, esp. a cathartic; to operate on as a cathartic; to purge.
Physic (v. t.) To work on as a remedy; to heal; to cure.
Physical (a.) Of or pertaining to nature (as including all created existences); in accordance with the laws of nature; also, of or relating to natural or material things, or to the bodily structure, as opposed to things mental, moral, spiritual, or imaginary; material; natural; as, armies and navies are the physical force of a nation; the body is the physical part of man.
Physical (a.) Of or pertaining to physics, or natural philosophy; treating of, or relating to, the causes and connections of natural phenomena; as, physical science; physical laws.
Physical (a.) Perceptible through a bodily or material organization; cognizable by the senses; external; as, the physical, opposed to chemical, characters of a mineral.
Physical (a.) Of or pertaining to physic, or the art of medicine; medicinal; curative; healing; also, cathartic; purgative.
Physically (adv.) In a physical manner; according to the laws of nature or physics; by physical force; not morally.
Physically (adv.) According to the rules of medicine.
Physician (n.) A person skilled in physic, or the art of healing; one duty authorized to prescribe remedies for, and treat, diseases; a doctor of medicine.
Physician (n.) Hence, figuratively, one who ministers to moral diseases; as, a physician of the soul.
Physicianed (a.) Licensed as a physician.
Physicism (n.) The tendency of the mind toward, or its preoccupation with, physical phenomena; materialism in philosophy and religion.
Physicist (n.) One versed in physics.
Physicist (n.) A believer in the theory that the fundamental phenomena of life are to be explained upon purely chemical and physical principles; -- opposed to vitalist.
Physicking () p. pr. & vb. n. fr. Physic, v. t.
Physico- () A combining form, denoting relation to, or dependence upon, natural causes, or the science of physics.
Physicochemical (a.) Involving the principles of both physics and chemistry; dependent on, or produced by, the joint action of physical and chemical agencies.
Physicologic (n.) Logic illustrated by physics.
Physicological (a.) Of or pertaining to physicologic.
Physicology (n.) Physics.
Physico-mathematics (n.) Mixed mathematics.
Physico-philosophy (n.) The philosophy of nature.
Physico-theology (n.) Theology or divinity illustrated or enforced by physics or natural philosophy.
Physics (n.) The science of nature, or of natural objects; that branch of science which treats of the laws and properties of matter, and the forces acting upon it; especially, that department of natural science which treats of the causes (as gravitation, heat, light, magnetism, electricity, etc.) that modify the general properties of bodies; natural philosophy.
Physiocrat (n.) One of the followers of Quesnay of France, who, in the 18th century, founded a system of political economy based upon the supremacy of natural order.
Physiogeny (n.) The germ history of the functions, or the history of the development of vital activities, in the individual, being one of the branches of ontogeny. See Morphogeny.
Physiognomer (n.) Physiognomist.
Physiognomic (a.) Alt. of Physiognomical
Physiognomical (a.) Of or pertaining to physiognomy; according with the principles of physiognomy.
Physiognomist (n.) Same as Physiognomy, 1.
Physiognomist (n.) One skilled in physiognomy.
Physiognomist (n.) One who tells fortunes by physiognomy.
Physiognomize (v. t.) To observe and study the physiognomy of.
Physiognommonic (a.) Physiognomic.
Physiognomies (pl. ) of Physiognomy
Physiognomy (n.) The art and science of discovering the predominant temper, and other characteristic qualities of the mind, by the outward appearance, especially by the features of the face.
Physiognomy (n.) The face or countenance, with respect to the temper of the mind; particular configuration, cast, or expression of countenance, as denoting character.
Physiognomy (n.) The art telling fortunes by inspection of the features.
Physiognomy (n.) The general appearance or aspect of a thing, without reference to its scientific characteristics; as, the physiognomy of a plant, or of a meteor.
Physiogony (n.) The birth of nature.
Physiographic (a.) Alt. of Physiographical
Physiographical (a.) Of or pertaining to physiography.
Physiography (n.) The science which treats of the earth's exterior physical features, climate, life, etc., and of the physical movements or changes on the earth's surface, as the currents of the atmosphere and ocean, the secular variations in heat, moisture, magnetism, etc.; physical geography.
Physiolatry (n.) The worship of the powers or agencies of nature; materialism in religion; nature worship.
Physiologer (n.) A physiologist.
Physiologic (a.) Physiological.
Physiological (a.) Of or pertaining to physiology; relating to the science of the functions of living organism; as, physiological botany or chemistry.
Physiologically (adv.) In a physiological manner.
Physiologist (n.) One who is versed in the science of physiology; a student of the properties and functions of animal and vegetable organs and tissues.
Physiologize (v. i.) To speculate in physiology; to make physiological investigations.
Physiologies (pl. ) of Physiology
Physiology (n.) The science which treats of the phenomena of living organisms; the study of the processes incidental to, and characteristic of, life.
Physiology (n.) A treatise on physiology.
Physiophyly (n.) The tribal history of the functions, or the history of the paleontological development of vital activities, -- being a branch of phylogeny. See Morphophyly.
Physique (n.) The natural constitution, or physical structure, of a person.
Physnomy (n.) Physiogmony.
Physoclist (n.) One of the Physoclisti.
Physoclisti (n. pl.) An order of teleost in which the air bladder has no opening.
Physograde (n.) Any siphonophore which has an air sac for a float, as the Physalia.
Physophorae (n. pl.) An order of Siphonophora, furnished with an air sac, or float, and a series of nectocalyces. See Illust. under Nectocalyx.
Physopod (n.) One of the Physopoda; a thrips.
Physopoda (n. pl.) Same as Thysanoptera.
Physostigmine (n.) An alkaloid found in the Calabar bean (the seed of Physostigma venenosum), and extracted as a white, tasteless, substance, amorphous or crystalline; -- formerly called eserine, with which it was regarded as identical.
Physostomi (n. pl.) An order of fishes in which the air bladder is provided with a duct, and the ventral fins, when present, are abdominal. It includes the salmons, herrings, carps, catfishes, and others.
Physostomous (a.) Having a duct to the air bladder.
Physostomous (a.) Pertaining to the Physostomi.
Phytelephas (n.) A genus of South American palm trees, the seeds of which furnish the substance called vegetable ivory.
Phytivorous (a.) Feeding on plants or herbage; phytophagous; as, phytivorous animals.
Phyto- () A combining form from Gr. fyto`n a plant; as, phytochemistry, phytography.
Phytochemical (a.) Relating to phytochemistry.
Phytochemistry (n.) Chemistry in its relation to vegetable bodies; vegetable chemistry.
Phytochimy (n.) Phytochemistry.
Phytogenesis (n.) Alt. of Phytogeny
Phytogeny (n.) The doctrine of the generation of plants.
Phytogeographical (a.) Of or pertaining to phytogeography.
Phytogeography (n.) The geographical distribution of plants.
Phytoglyphic (a.) Relating to phytoglyphy.
Phytoglyphy (n.) See Nature printing, under Nature.
Phytographical (a.) Of or pertaining to phytography.