Hypertext Webster Gateway: "poly"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Poly- \Pol"y-\ [See {Full}, a.]
A combining form or prefix from Gr. poly`s, many; as,
polygon, a figure of many angles; polyatomic, having many
atoms; polychord, polyconic.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Poly \Po"ly\, n. [L. polium, the name of a plant, perhaps
Teucrium polium, Gr. ?.] (Bot.)
A whitish woolly plant ({Teucrium Polium}) of the order
{Labiat[ae]}, found throughout the Mediterranean region. The
name, with sundry prefixes, is sometimes given to other
related species of the same genus. [Spelt also {poley}.]
{Poly mountain}. See {Poly-mountain}, in Vocabulary.
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