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Po*lyc"ra*cy (?), n. [Poly- + -cracy, as in democracy.] Government by many rulers; polyarchy.

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Pol`y*crot"ic (pl`*krt"k), a. [Poly- + Gr. krotei^n to beat.] (Physiol.) Of or pertaining to polycrotism; manifesting polycrotism; as, a polycrotic pulse; a polycrotic pulse curve.

Po*lyc"ro*tism (?), n. (Physiol.) That state or condition of the pulse in which the pulse curve, or sphygmogram, shows several secondary crests or elevations; -- contrasted with monocrotism and dicrotism.

Pol`y*cys"tid (?), n. (Zoˆl.) (a) One of the Polycystidea. (b) One of the Polycystina. -- a. Pertaining to the Polycystidea, or the Polycystina.

||Pol`y*cys*tid"e*a (?), n. pl. [NL. See Poly-, and Cystidea.] (Zoˆl.) ||A division of GregarinÊ including those that have two or more ||internal divisions of the body.

||Pol`y*cys*ti"na (?), n. pl. [NL. See Poly-, and Cyst.] (Zoˆl.) A ||division of Radiolaria including numerous minute marine species. The ||skeleton is composed of silica, and is often very elegant in form and ||sculpture. Many have been found in the fossil state.

Pol`y*cys"tine (?), a. (Zoˆl.) Pertaining to the Polycystina. -- n. One of the Polycystina.

||Pol`y*cyt*ta"ri*a (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. poly`s many + &?;, dim. ||fr. &?; a hollow vessel.] (Zoˆl.) A division of Radiolaria. It ||includes those having one more central capsules.

Pol`y*dac"tyl*ism (?), n. [Poly- + Gr. &?; finger: cf. F. polydactylisme.] (Anat.) The possession of more that the normal number of digits.

||Pol`y*dip"si*a (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. poly`s much + &?; thirst.] ||(Med.) Excessive and constant thirst occasioned by disease.

Pol`y*e"dron (?), n. See Polyhedron.

Pol`y*e"drous (?), a. See Polyhedral.

Pol`y*ei"dic (?), a. [Poly- + Gr. &?; form.] (Zoˆl.) Passing through several distinct larval forms; -- having several distinct kinds of young.

Pol`y*ei"dism (?), n. (Zoˆl.) The quality or state of being polyeidic.

Pol`y*em"bry*o*nate (?), a. [Poly- + embryonate.] (Bot.) Consisting of, or having, several embryos; polyembryonic.

Pol`y*em`bry*on"ic (?), a. [Poly- + embryonic.] (Bot.) Polyembryonate.

Pol`y*em"bry*o*ny (?), n. [See Poly- , and Embryo.] (Bot.) The production of two or more embryos in one seed, due either to the existence and fertilization of more than one embryonic sac or to the origination of embryos outside of the embryonic sac.

Pol"y*foil (?), n. [Poly- + foil, n.] (Arch.) Same as Multifoil.

||Po*lyg"a*la (?), n. [L., milkwort, fr. Gr. &?;; poly`s much + &?; ||milk.] A genus of bitter herbs or shrubs having eight stamens and a ||two-celled ovary (as the Seneca snakeroot, the flowering wintergreen, ||etc.); milkwort.

Pol`y*ga*la"ceous (?), a. Of or pertaining to a natural order of plants (PolygalaceÊ) of which Polygala is the type.

Po*lyg"a*lic (?), a. (Chem.) Of, pertaining to, or obtained from, Polygala; specifically, designating an acrid glucoside (called polygalic acid, senegin, etc.), resembling, or possibly identical with, saponin.

||Pol`y*ga"mi*a (?), n. pl. [NL. See Polygamous.] (Bot.) (a) A LinnÊan ||class of plants, characterized by having both hermaphrodite and ||unisexual flowers on the same plant. (b) A name given by LinnÊus to ||file orders of plants having syngenesious flowers.

Pol`y*ga"mi*an (?), a. (Bot.) Polygamous.

Po*lyg"a*mist (?), n. [Cf. F. polygamiste, polygame, Gr. &?;, a.] One who practices polygamy, or maintains its lawfulness.

Po*lyg"a*mize (?), v. i. To practice polygamy; to marry several wives. Sylvester. Coleridge.

Po*lyg"a*mous (?), a. [Gr. &?; living &?; polygamy; poly`s many + &?; marriage. Cf. Bigamy.]

1. Of or pertaining to polygamy; characterized by, or involving, polygamy; having a plurality of wives; as, polygamous marriages; -- opposed to monogamous.