Platter
(Plat"ter), n. [Probably fr. OF. platel, F. plateau. See Plateau.] A large plate or shallow dish
on which meat or other food is brought to the table.
The attendants . . . speedly brought in several large, smoking platters, filled with huge pieces of beef.
Sir W. Scott. Platter-faced
(Plat"ter-faced`) a. Having a broad, flat face.
Platting
(Plat"ting) n. Plaited strips or bark, cane, straw, etc., used for making hats or the like.
Platy
(Plat"y) a. Like a plate; consisting of plates.
Platy-
(Plat"y-) A combining form from Gr. platy`s broad, wide, flat; as, platypus, platycephalous.
Platycephalic
(Plat`y*ce*phal"ic Plat`y*ceph"a*lous) a. [Platy + Gr. head.] (Anat.) Broad-headed.
Platycnemic
(Plat`yc*ne"mic) a. [Platy + Gr. leg: cf. F. platycnémique.] (Anat.) Of, relating to, or characterized
by, platycnemism.
Platycnemism
(Pla*tyc"ne*mism) n. (Anat.) Lateral flattening of the tibia.
Platycœlian
(Plat`y*cœ"li*an) a. [Platy + Gr. hollow.] (Anat.) Flat at the anterior and concave at the posterior
end; — said of the centra of the vertebræ of some extinct dinouaurs.
Platyelminthes
(||Plat`y*el*min"thes) n. pl. [NL. See Platy-, and Helminthes.] (Zoöl.) A class of helminthes
including the cestodes, or tapeworms, the trematodes, and the turbellarians. Called also flatworms.
Platyhelmia
(||Plat`y*hel"mi*a) n. pl. [NL.] (Zoöl.) Same as Platyelminthes. [Written also Platyelmia.]
Platymeter
(Pla*tym"e*ter) n. [Platy + -meter.] (Elec.) An apparatus for measuring the capacity of
condensers, or the inductive capacity of dielectrics.
Platypod
(Plat"y*pod) n. [Platy + - pod.] (Zoöl.) An animal having broad feet, or a broad foot.
Platypoda
(||Pla*typ"o*da) n. pl. [NL.] (Zoöl.) Same as Prosobranchiata.
Platyptera
(||Pla*typ"te*ra) n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. broad + a wing.] (Zoöl.) A division of Pseudoneuroptera
including the species which have four broad, flat wings, as the termites, or white-ants, and the stone
flies
Platypus
(Plat"y*pus) n. [NL., fr. Gr. + foot.] (Zoöl.) The duck mole. See under Duck.
Platyrhine
(Plat"y*rhine) a. [Platy + Gr. nose.] (Anat.) Having the nose broad; — opposed to leptorhine.
— n. (Zoöl.) One of the Platyrhini.
Platyrhini
(||Plat`y*rhi"ni) n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. broad + nose.] (Zoöl.) A division of monkeys, including the
American species, which have a broad nasal septum, thirty-six teeth, and usually a prehensile tail. See
Monkey. [Written also Platyrrhini.]
Plaud
(Plaud) v. t. To applaud. [Obs.] Chapman.
Plaudit
(Plau"dit) n. [From L. plaudite do ye praise (which was said by players at the end of a performance),
2d pers. pl. imperative of plaudere. Cf. Plausible.] A mark or expression of applause; praise bestowed.
Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng.
Longfellow. Syn. — Acclamation; applause; encomium; commendation; approbation; approval.
