Vocabulary : Para cress to Parabola

Para cress : An annual asteraceous herb (Spilances oleracea) grown in tropical countries as a pungent salad, and also used medicinally.
Para grass : A tall rather coarse grass (Panicum molle) grown in the tropics for pasturage, and introduced into the southern United States. ;; Piassaba fiber. ;; A valuable pasture grass (Panicum barbinode) introduced into the Southern United States from Brazil.
Para nut : The Brazil nut. ;; The Brazil nut.
Para rubber : The caoutchouc obtained from the South American euphorbiaceous tree Hevea brasiliensis, hence called the Para rubber tree, from the Brazilian river and seaport named Para; also, the similar product of other species of Hevea. It is usually exported in flat round cakes, and is a chief variety of commercial India rubber.
Para-anaesthesia : Alt. of -anesthesia

Parabanic : Pertaining to, or designating, a nitrogenous acid which is obtained by the oxidation of uric acid, as a white crystalline substance (C3N2H2O3); -- also called oxalyl urea.
Parablast : A portion of the mesoblast (of peripheral origin) of the developing embryo, the cells of which are especially concerned in forming the first blood and blood vessels.
Parablastic : Of or pertaining to the parablast; as, the parablastic cells.
Parable : Procurable. ;; A comparison; a similitude; specifically, a short fictitious narrative of something which might really occur in life or nature, by means of which a moral is drawn; as, the parables of Christ. ;; To represent by parable.
Parabola : A kind of curve; one of the conic sections formed by the intersection of the surface of a cone with a plane parallel to one of its sides. It is a curve, any point of which is equally distant from a fixed point, called the focus, and a fixed straight line, called the directrix. See Focus. ;; One of a group of curves defined by the equation y = axn where n is a positive whole number or a positive fraction. For the cubical parabola n = 3; for the semicubical parabola n = /. See under Cubical, and Semicubical. The parabolas have infinite branches, but no rectilineal asymptotes.

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