poly-

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poly- - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  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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  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
     Labiat[ae], 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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