pyre | (noun) wood heaped for burning a dead body as a funeral rite | Synonyms: funeral pyre |
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pyrectic | (adjective) having or causing fever | - |
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(noun) any substance that can cause a rise in body temperature | Synonyms: pyrogen |
pyrene | (noun) the small hard nutlet of a drupe or drupelet; the seed and the hard endocarp that surrounds it | - |
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(noun) a pale yellow crystalline hydrocarbon C16H10 extracted from coal tar | - |
pyrethrum | (noun) spring-flowering garden perennial of Asiatic origin having finely divided aromatic leaves and white to pink-purple flowers; source of an insecticide; sometimes placed in genus Chrysanthemum | Synonyms: Chrysanthemum coccineum, painted daisy, Tanacetum coccineum |
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(noun) white-flowered pyrethrum of Balkan area whose pinnate leaves are white and silky-hairy below; source of an insecticide; sometimes placed in genus Chrysanthemum | Synonyms: Chrysanthemum cinerariifolium, Dalmatia pyrethrum, Dalmatian pyrethrum, Tanacetum cinerariifolium |
(noun) made of dried flower heads of pyrethrum plants | - |
pyretic | (adjective) causing fever | - |
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pyrexia | (noun) a rise in the temperature of the body; frequently a symptom of infection | Synonyms: febricity, febrility, fever, feverishness |
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