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Peckerwood
- noun - bird with strong claws and a stiff tail adapted for climbing and a hard chisel-like bill for boring into wood for insects
Pecopteris
- noun - Carboniferous fossil fern characterized by a regular arrangement of the leaflets resembling a comb
Pectinated
- - Resembling the teeth of a comb.
Pectoralis
- noun - either of two large muscles of the chest
Pectorally
- - As connected with the breast.
Peculating
- verb - appropriate (as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use; "The accountant embezzled thousands of dollars while working for the wealthy family"
Peculation
- noun - the fraudulent appropriation of funds or property entrusted to your care but actually owned by someone else
Peculators
- noun - someone who violates a trust by taking (money) for his own use
Peculiarly
- adverb - in a manner differing from the usual or expected; "had a curiously husky voice"; "he's behaving rather peculiarly"
- to a distinctly greater extent or degree than is common; "he was particularly fussy about spelling"; "a particularly gruesome attack"; "under peculiarly tragic circumstances"; "an especially (or specially) cautious approach to the danger"
- uniquely or characteristically; "these peculiarly cinematic elements"; "a peculiarly French phenomenon"; "everyone has a moment in history which belongs particularly to him"- John Knowles