Vocabulary : Pismire to Pistachio

Pismire : An ant, or emmet.
Pisolite : A variety of calcite, or calcium carbonate, consisting of aggregated globular concretions about the size of a pea; -- called also peastone, peagrit.
Pisolitic : Composed of, containing, or resembling, pisolite.
Pisophalt : Pissasphalt.
Piss : To discharge urine, to urinate. ;; Urine.

Pissabed : A name locally applied to various wild plants, as dandelion, bluet, oxeye daisy, etc.
Pissasphalt : Earth pitch; a soft, black bitumen of the consistence of tar, and of a strong smell. It is inflammable, and intermediate between petroleum and asphalt.
Pist : See Piste.
Pistache : The anacardiaceous tree Pistacia vera, which yields the pistachio nut; also, the nut itself and the flavoring extract prepared from it.
Pistachio : The small anacardiaceous tree, of southern Europe and Asia Minor, which bears the pistachio nut. ;; The flavor of the pistachio nut, or an ice or confection flavored with it. ;; Pistachio green. ;; The nut of the Pistacia vera, a tree of the order Anacardiaceae, containing a kernel of a pale greenish color, which has a pleasant taste, resembling that of the almond, and yields an oil of agreeable taste and odor; -- called also pistachio nut. It is wholesome and nutritive. The tree grows in Arabia, Persia, Syria, and Sicily.

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