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Source: gcide
Poly- \Pol"y-\ [See {Full}, a.]
A combining form or prefix from Gr. poly`s, many; as,
polygon, a figure of many angles; polyatomic, having many
atoms; polychord, polyconic.

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Source: gcide
Poly \Po"ly\, n. [L. polium, the name of a plant, perhaps
Teucrium polium, Gr. ?.]
(Bot.)
A whitish woolly plant ({Teucrium Polium}) of the order
{Labiatae}, found throughout the Mediterranean region. The
name, with sundry prefixes, is sometimes given to other
related species of the same genus. [Spelt also {poley}.]

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{Poly mountain}. See {Poly-mountain}, in Vocabulary.

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