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Pistacio Nut – Plaid

Pistacio Nut

the fruit of the piswas defeated by Valens, who put him to ar flavor and bright green in color, and is much used in confections, a peculiar etc.

Pistil

the female organ in plants, standing in the middle of the stamens, around which again stand the floral envelopes.

Pistillidium

a name given to certain small, sessile, ovate bodies in the fructification of mosses, enveloped in membrane tapering upward into a point.

When abortive they are called paraphyses.

Pitcairn

a borough of Pennsylvania, in Allegheny co. It is about 15 miles E. of Pittsburgh on the Pennsylvania railroad. There shops and yards, machine shops and foundries, and electrical supply works. are railroad (1910) 4,975; There are important coal mines in the neighborhood. Pop. (1920) 5,738.

Pitney

MAHLON, a Justice of the found in Saxony and Cornwall, composed

Pitt

WILLIAM. See CHATHAM. posed to the American War as was his

Pittsfield

a city and county-seat

Pittsfield

a city and county-seat tonic river, and on the New York, New of Berkshire co., Mass.; on the Housa- Haven and Hartford and the Boston and Albany railroads; 52 miles W. of Springfield. The city comprises about a dozen villages . Here are a high school, privillages. Here are a high school, pri-

Pituitary Body

a small reddishturcica of the sphenoid bone. Formerly gray mass divided into an anterior and called the pituitary gland, from the era posterior lobe, and occupying the sella into the nostrils. roneous belief that it discharged mucus called the pituitary gland, from the ercaves dug in the ground and covered

Pius

the name of a number of Popes, died in 157. as follows:

Placenta

in anatomy, the organ by which the fœtus is connected with the mother, and vascular connection between the two maintained. It ultimately comes away as the afterbirth. Called also uterine cake. In botany, the part

Plaid

goods of any quality or mawoolen cloth of various colors, worn by both sexes of the natives of Scotland, of which country it is an important part of woolen cloth of various colors, worn by both sexes of the natives of Scotland, of which country it is an important part of the national costume.