Placentiform, nearly same as quoit-shaped.
Plaited (in the bud), or Plicate, folded, [72], [98].
Platy-, Greek for broad, in compounds, such as Platyphyllous, broad-leaved, &c.
Pleio-, Greek for full or abounding, used in compounds, such as Pleiopetalous, of many petals, &c.
Plumbeus, lead-colored.
Plumose, feathery; when any slender body (such as a bristle of a pappus or a style) is beset with hairs along its sides, like the plume of a feather.
Plumule, the bud or first shoot of a germinating plantlet above the cotyledons, [13].
Pluri-, in composition, many or several; as Plurifoliolate, with several leaflets.
Pod, specially a legume, [122]; also may be applied to any sort of capsule.
Podium, a footstalk or stipe, used only in Greek compounds, as (suffixed) Leptopodus, slender-stalked, or (prefixed) Podocephalus, with a stalked head, and in Podosperm, a seed stalk or funiculus.