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Word Unit: pilo-, pil-, pili- + (Latin: hair).

Links to other hair-related units: alopec-; barba-; Beards; capillaro-; chaeto-; cirro-; coife; crino-; Hair & Beard Styles; hirsute; pogo-; tricho-; villi-.

Word Unit: pimelo-, pimel-, pimele- + (Greek: [soft] fat).

Related fat-word units: adipo-; lard; lipo-; obeso-; oleo-; omento-; pio-; sebo-; steato-.

Word Unit: pin-, pino- + (Greek: a combining form confused between three Greek roots and may mean "hunger", "dirt", or "drink"; and there is one Latin form referring to the "pine tree").

Word Unit: pineal-, pinea- (Latin: pine tree, relating to the pine; shaped like a cone).

Word Unit: pingu-, pingue-, pingui- (Latin: pinguis, fat, grease).

Word Unit: pinni-, pin- + (Latin: pinnatus, feather, feathered, winged).

Related "feather, feather-like; soft down, plumage" word units: penna-; plum-, -plume; pterido-; ptero-; ptilo-.

Word Unit: pio-, pi-, pion- + (Greek: fat).

Related fat-word units: adipo-; lard; lipo-; obeso-; oleo-; omento-; pimelo-; sebo-; steato-.

Word Unit: pisci-, pisc- + (Latin: fish).

Word Unit: pitheco-, pithec-, -pithecan, -pithecoid (Greek: ape, monkey).

Word Unit: pituit- + (Latin: phlegm, rheum).

Word Unit: plac-, placi-, -plais (Latin: to please, to satisfy; peace, peacefulness; calm, calmness).

Cross references directly, or indirectly, involving "calm, calmness, peace, quiet": pac-, peac-; quies-, quiet-; seren-.

Word Unit: placento-, placent-, placenta- (Latin: flat cake; cakelike mass, especially the uterine organ that connects the mother to the child by way of the umbilical cord).

Word Unit: plag- + (Greek > Latin: strike, stroke, blow, wound; beat the breast; lament loudly [while beating the breast]; pestilence).

Word Unit: plagi-, plagio- + (Greek: sideways, slanting, sloping; oblique).

Word Unit: plagiar- (Latin: a literary thief; "plunderer, oppressor, kidnapper" [one who "abducts the child or slave of another"]; then by extension, to take and use the thoughts, writings, etc. of someone else and represent or claim them as one's own).

Word Unit: Plagiarisms: Past and Present (plagiarize comes from Latin plagium which meant "kidnapping").

Word Unit: Planets in motion (passively drifting and wandering in the sky).

Word Unit: plankto-, plankt-, -plankton + (Greek: passively drifting, wandering, or roaming).

Inter-related cross references, directly or indirectly, involving the "sea" and the "ocean" bodies of water: abysso- (bottomless); Atlantic; batho-, bathy- (depth); bentho- (deep, depth); halio-, halo- (salt or "the sea"); mare, mari- (sea); necto-, nekto- (swimming); oceano-; pelago- (sea, ocean); thalasso- (sea, ocean).

Word Unit: Plankton Varieties (importance of plankton in marine life).

Word Unit: plano-, plan-, plani- (Latin: flat, even, level, smooth).

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