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powellii after John Wesley Powell (1834-1902), director of the U.S. Geological Survey, director of the<br />

Bureau of Ethnology, president of the A.A.A.S., soldier, explorer, and malacologist. A professor of Geology<br />

at I.S.U.<br />

pous, -pous form Greek, πους, ποδος, pous, podos, a foot.<br />

Pouzolzia For P. C. M. de Pouzolz, botanist and collector in Corsica, France, and the Pyrénées<br />

pra, prao Greek mild, gentle<br />

pract Latin do, act, work<br />

prae- from classical Latin before, in front of, beforehand, also used as very. For example praecānus can<br />

mean very grey-haired or prematurely grey (grey coming before), from P.I.E. root *prai, before. See the<br />

discussion under pre-, prefix in OED.<br />

praealte very deeply<br />

praealtus very tall or very deep<br />

praeltus elevated, high.<br />

praecinctus girdled round.<br />

praecipitatus earlier than usual.<br />

praecipue chiefly, principally<br />

praecipuus excellent.<br />

praecisus abrupt.<br />

praeco-, praecoc, praecox Latin early, premature<br />

praecocius<br />

praecox prae'cox (PREE-kox) premature, very early, appearing early or developing early, precocious; very early<br />

flowering, fowering before.<br />

praeflorens flowering early.<br />

praegnans fruitful.<br />

praegracilis -is -e praegra'cilis (pree-GRA-si-lis) very thin or graceful, from Latin prae, before, in front, and<br />

gracilis, thin, slender, for the slender elongate culms<br />

praelongus very tall, very long stalked.<br />

praemorsus bitten at the end, as if the end was bitten off.<br />

praenitens chiming forth.<br />

praesep Latin an enclosure<br />

praesertim especially<br />

praepinguis very plump.<br />

praescissus <strong>with</strong> long stilts.<br />

praestans noble, distinguished, excelling, excellent, standing out.<br />

praestantissimus unsurpassed, very excellent.<br />

praesto PIE ROOTS ghes-<br />

praeter Latin beyond, past, more than<br />

praeterea moreover<br />

praeteritus past<br />

praetermissus neglected, overlooked, omitted<br />

praetervisus neglected.<br />

praetextus bordered, fringed; interwoven, webbed.<br />

praeust-, praeustus Latin apparently scorched.<br />

praevalens prevalent.<br />

praevar Latin irregular<br />

pragma, -pragma, pragmato Greek an object, thing, fact, matter<br />

pragmon Greek work<br />

prairea of the prairie<br />

praniz Greek thrown headlong<br />

prao Greek mild, gentle<br />

Prärienacht German cv. prairie night<br />

pras-, praseo-, prasin-, prasum, -prasum Greek a leek, prason, πράσον.<br />

prasin- referring to the color green<br />

prasinatus greenish, clad in leek-green.<br />

prăsĭnus -a -um grass-green, green like a leek, from Greek πράσινος, prasinos, leek green, for the color of<br />

the leaves

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