Vocabulary : Paradoxides to Paragenic

Paradoxides : A genus of large trilobites characteristic of the primordial formations.
Paradoxist : One who proposes a paradox.
Paradoxology : The use of paradoxes.
Paradoxure : Any species of Paradoxurus, a genus of Asiatic viverrine mammals allied to the civet, as the musang, and the luwack or palm cat (Paradoxurus hermaphroditus). See Musang.
Paradoxy : A paradoxical statement; a paradox. ;; The quality or state of being paradoxical.

Paraffin : Alt. of Paraffine
Paraffine : A white waxy substance, resembling spermaceti, tasteless and odorless, and obtained from coal tar, wood tar, petroleum, etc., by distillation. It is used as an illuminant and lubricant. It is very inert, not being acted upon by most of the strong chemical reagents. It was formerly regarded as a definite compound, but is now known to be a complex mixture of several higher hydrocarbons of the methane or marsh-gas series; hence, by extension, any substance, whether solid, liquid, or gaseous, of the same chemical series; thus coal gas and kerosene consist largely of paraffins.
Parage : Equality of condition, blood, or dignity; also, equality in the partition of an inheritance. ;; Equality of condition between persons holding unequal portions of a fee. ;; Kindred; family; birth.
Paragenesis : The formation of minerals in contact, so as to affect one another's development. ;; The order in which minerals occurring together in rocks and veins have developed. ;; The science which treats of minerals with special reference to their origin.
Paragenic : Originating in the character of the germ, or at the first commencement of an individual; -- said of peculiarities of structure, character, etc.

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