POECILOPOD
Poe*cil"o*pod, n. Etym: [Cf. F. poecilopode.] (Zoöl.)
Defn: One of the Poecilopoda. Also used adjectively.
POECILOPODA Poe`ci*lop"o*da, n. pl. Etym: [NL., fr. Gr. -poda.] (Zoöl.) (a) Originally, an artificial group including many parasitic Entomostraca, together with the horseshoe crabs (Limuloidea). (b) By some recent writers applied to the Merostomata.
POEM
Po"em, n. Etym: [L. poëma, Gr. poëme.]
1. A metrical composition; a composition in verse written in certain measures, whether in blank verse or in rhyme, and characterized by imagination and poetic diction; — contradistinguished from prose; as, the poems of Homer or of Milton.
2. A composition, not in verse, of which the language is highly imaginative or impassioned; as, a prose poem; the poems of Ossian.
POEMATIC
Po`em*at"ic, a. Etym: [Gr.
Defn: Pertaining to a poem, or to poetry; poetical. [R.] Coleridge.
POENAMU
Po*e"na*mu, n. (Min.)
Defn: A variety of jade or nephrite, — used in New Zealand for the manufacture of axes and weapons.