n. A national food of the Hawaiians, made by baking and pounding the kalo (or taro) root, and reducing it to a thin paste, which is allowed to ferment. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ F., p. pr. of poindre to sting, fr. L. pungere to prick, sting. See Pungent. ] 1. Pricking; piercing; sharp; pungent. “His poignant spear.” Spenser. “Poynaunt sauce.” Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ Gr. poiki`los diversified, changeable + ky`tos hollow vessel. ] (Physiol.) An irregular form of corpuscle found in the blood in cases of profound anæmia, probably a degenerated red blood corpuscle. [ 1913 Webster ]
‖n. [ NL. Named after M. de Poinci, a governor of the French West Indies. ] (Bot.) A prickly tropical shrub (Cæsalpinia, formerly Poinciana, pulcherrima), with bipinnate leaves, and racemes of showy orange-red flowers with long crimson filaments. [ 1913 Webster ]
☞ The genus Poinciana is kept up for three trees of Eastern Africa, the Mascarene Islands, and India. [ 1913 Webster ]
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