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Word Unit: Polygamy, Part 2 of 3 (single marriages and multiple marriages ).

Word Unit: Polygamy, Part 3 of 3 (multiple marriages may be more widespread than we realize).

Word Unit: Polysemy, Polyseme, Polysemes, and Polysemous (linguistic terms for words with two or more meanings; usually, multiple meanings of a word or words).

Word Unit: pom-, pomo-, pomi- (Latin: fruit, fruit tree).

Word Unit: pon-, posit-, pos-, -poning, -poned, -ponency, -ponent, -ponement, -pound (Latin: to place, to put, to set).

Related word families intertwined with "to place, placing, to put; to add; to stay; to attach" word units: fix-; prosth-; stato-; the-, thes-.

Word Unit: pono-, pon-, -ponic, -ponics + (Greek: toil, labor, work hard, fatigue; exertion; also, suffering, pain).

Cross references related to "work, toil" word families: argo-; ergasio-; ergo-; labor-; oper-; urg-.

Cross references related to "pain, hurt; suffering, injury" word families: -agra; algesi-; algo-; angina-; dolor-; Masochism; noci-; odyno-; poen-; Sadism.

Word Unit: ponto-, pont-, pon- (Latin: bridge).

Word Unit: popu- (Latin: people).

Related "people, human" word units: anthropo-; demo-; ethno-; ochlo-; publi-.

Word Unit: porc-, pork- (Latin: pig, hog).

Word Unit: porno-, porn- + (Greek: harlot, prostitute, whore).

Related "sex, sexism, sexual lust, sexual deviation" word units: aphrodi-; -cest-; eroto-; lagneuo-; -lagnia; masochism; Sadism-; satyr-; sex-; sodom-; whore.

Word Unit: poro-, por-, pori- + (Greek > Latin > Old French: passageway, used primarily as "a pore, a small orifice"; opening; cavity, tract).

A cross reference of other word family units that are related directly, indirectly, or partially with: "opening, hole, cavity, tract, tube": alveolo-; antro-; anu-; celo-; coelio-; concho-; fenestra-; hernio-; hiat-; meato-; ora-; parieto-; pyl-, pyle-; pylor-; sphinctero-; splanchn-; stomato-; syringo-; uretero-; urethro-; vagino-; ventricul-.

Word Unit: port- (Latin: door, gate, entrance, harbor).

Word Unit: port-, portat- (Latin: carry, bring, bear).

Cross references of word families related to "bear, carry, bring": duc-; -fer; ger-; later-, -lation; phoro-.

Word Unit: Portmanteau (examples of portmanteau combinations).

Word Unit: -posia, -posium (Greek > Latin: drinking; a word termination [suffix] denoting a relationship to drinking or the intake of fluids).

Word Unit: poso- (Greek: how much? how great?).

Word Unit: Posse Comitatus (Act of 1878).

Word Unit: post- (Latin: after, behind, later, subsequent).

Word Unit: postero-, poster- (Latin: after, behind, following; denoting relationship to the posterior [back] part; usually used as a prefix).

Word Unit: Posters: Something to Think About (posters worth considering).

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