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121Polo — /poh loh/, n. Marco /mahr koh/, c1254 1324, Venetian traveler. * * * I Game played by teams of players on horseback. Players use mallets with long flexible handles to drive a wooden ball through goalposts. It was first played in Persia in the 6th …
122Polonnaruwa — /poh lun euh roov euh/, n. a town in E central Sri Lanka: Buddhist ruins. * * * ▪ Sri Lanka town, north central Sri Lanka (Ceylon), near the Mahaweli River. It is an ancient Ceylonese capital that was long deserted but has been revived in modern …
123pomaceous — /poh may sheuhs/, adj. of, pertaining to, or of the nature of pomes. [1700 10; < NL pomaceus. See POME, ACEOUS] * * * …
124pomatum — /poh may teuhm, mah , peuh /, n. pomade. [1555 65; < NL, Latinization of POMADE; neut. (for fem.) to agree with L pomum fruit; see POME] * * * …
125pomiferous — /poh mif euhr euhs/, adj. Bot. bearing pomes or pomelike fruits. [1650 60; < L pomifer fruit bearing (see POME, I , FER) + OUS] * * * …
126Pommard — /poh mahrd /; Fr. /paw mannrdd /, n. a dry, red wine from the Pommard parish in Burgundy. [1825 35] * * * …
127pomo — /poh moh/, Informal. adj. 1. postmodern. n. 2. the postmodern movement; postmodernism. [1985 90] * * * North American Indian people living in northern California, U.S. The name Pomo, which may have been derived from the name of a village, was… …
128Pomo — /poh moh/, n., pl. Pomos, (esp. collectively) Pomo. 1. a member of an American Indian people of northern California. 2. any of several related languages of the Pomo Indians. * * * North American Indian people living in northern California, U.S.… …
