Pachypus (pakipus)

[NL., Pachy ramphus, upon such species as P. sur in am us, virid is, and extended by oth P. cinereus, and P. virid is, ers to such as the rose-throated flycatcher, P. aglaiæ. The form Pachyrhamphusi 1851.-2. A genus of reptiles. Fit zinger, 1843. us is of Kaup, Pachyrhizus (pak-i-rīzus), n. [NL. (A. Rich1825), prop. * Pachyrrhizus, of the thick style. The two species are high-climbing herbs, with leaves of three leaflets, and flowers clustered on long axillary peduncles. One is a Mexican plant; the other, P. angulatus, is widely diffused through the tropics, which become eight feet long and many inches thick. Its stems yield a tough fiber. See yam - bean, under beant. pachyrhynchous (pak-i-ring'kus), a. [Prop. either native or cultivated for its edible starchy tubers, #pachyrrhynchous, beak.] bill. beak.] Having a thick bill, beak, or rostrum. Pachysandra (pak-i-san'dra), n. [NL. (Mi chaux, 1803), America.