Pygmy antelope(Zoöl.), the kleeneboc. — Pygmy goose(Zoöl.), any species of very small geese of the genus Nettapus, native of Africa, India, and Australia. — Pygmy owl(Zoöl.), the gnome. — Pygmy parrot(Zoöl.), any one of several species of very small green parrots native of New Guinea and adjacent islands. They are not larger than sparrows.

Pycnidium
(||Pyc*nid"i*um) n.; pl. Pycnidia [NL., fr. Gr. crowded.] (Bot.) In certain fungi, a flask- shaped cavity from the surface of the inner walls of which spores are produced.

Pycnite
(Pyc"nite) n. (Min.) A massive subcolumnar variety of topaz.

Pycnodont
(Pyc"no*dont) n. [Gr. thick, crowded + a tooth.] (Paleon.) Any fossil fish belonging to the Pycnodontini. They have numerous round, flat teeth, adapted for crushing.

Pycnodontini
(||Pyc`no*don"ti*ni) n. pl. [NL.] (Zoöl.) An extinct order of ganoid fishes. They had a compressed body, covered with dermal ribs (pleurolepida) and with enameled rhomboidal scales.

Pycnogonid
(Pyc*nog"o*nid) n. (Zoöl.) One of the Pycnogonida.

Pycnogonida
(||Pyc`no*gon"i*da) n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. thick crowded + knee.] (Zoöl.) A class of marine arthropods in which the body is small and thin, and the eight legs usually very long; — called also Pantopoda.

The abdomen is rudimentary, and the triangular mouth is at the end of a tubular proboscis. Many of them live at great depths in the sea, and the largest of them measure two feet across the extended legs.

Pycnometer
(Pyc*nom"e*ter) n. [Gr. dense, compact + -meter.] (Physics) A specific gravity bottle; a standard flask for measuring and comparing the densities of liquids. [Also written pyknometer.]

Pycnostyle
(Pyc"no*style) a. [Gr. with the pillars close together; close + a column, pillar: cf. F. pycnostyle.] (Anc. Arch.) See under Intercolumniation. -n. A pycnostyle colonnade.

Pye
(Pye) n. See 2d Pie (b).

Pyebald
(Pye"bald`) a. See Piebald.

Pyelitis
(||Py`e*li"tis) n. [Gr. basin + - itis.] (Med.) Inflammation of the pelvis of the kidney.

Pyemia
(Py*e"mi*a) n. (Med.) See PyÆmia.

Pyet
(Py"et) n. A magpie; a piet. [Prov. Eng.]

Here cometh the worthy prelate as pert as a pyet.
Sir W. Scott.

Pygal
(Py"gal) a. (Anat.) Situated in the region of the rump, or posterior end of the backbone; — applied especially to the posterior median plates in the carapace of chelonians.

Pygarg
(Py"garg ||Py*gar"gus) [L. pygargus, Gr. literally, white rump; the rump + white: cf. F. pygargue.]

1. (Zoöl.) A quadruped, probably the addax, an antelope having a white rump. Deut. xiv. 5.

2. (Zoöl.) (a) The female of the hen harrier. (b) The sea eagle.

Pygidium
(||Py*gid"i*um) n.; pl. Pygidia [NL., fr. Gr. dim. of the rump.] (Zoöl.) The caudal plate of trilobites, crustacean, and certain insects. See Illust. of Limulus and Trilobite.

Pygmy
(Pyg"my Pyg*me"an) a. [L. pygmaeus. See Pygmy.] Of or pertaining to a pygmy; resembling a pygmy or dwarf; dwarfish; very small. " Like that Pygmean race." Milton.
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