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Hecatompedon
Hecatompedon Hec`a*tom"pe*don, n. [Gr. ? hundred feet long, ? ? the Parthenon; ? hundred + ? foot.] (Arch.) A name given to the old Parthenon at Athens, because measuring 100 Greek feet, probably in the width across the stylobate.
Parallelopipedon
Parallelopipedon Par`al*lel`o*pip"e*don, n. [NL.] A parallelopiped. --Hutton.
Tropidonotus sipedon
Water snake Wa"ter snake` (Zo["o]l.) (a) A common North American colubrine snake (Tropidonotus sipedon) which lives chiefly in the water. (b) Any species of snakes of the family Homalopsid[ae], all of which are aquatic in their habits.
Tropidonotus sipedon
Water adder Wa"ter ad"der (Zo["o]l.) (a) The water moccasin. (b) The common, harmless American water snake (Tropidonotus sipedon). See Illust. under Water Snake.

Meaning of Pedon from wikipedia

- to be thoroughly defined by a set of criteria. When allocating a soil (a pedon, a soil profile) to a taxonomic unit, one has to check every horizon of...
- Ryan Thomas Pedon (born May 3, 1978) is an American basketball coach and former player. He is currently the head coach at Illinois State. He is known...
- Bartolomeo Pedon (Venice, 1665- Venice, 1732) was an Italian painter of the late-Baroque period. He mainly painted landscapes, often nocturnes or whimsical...
- 'Relating to soil', from the Ancient Gr**** word for 'soil, the ground', pédon or pēdón (πέδον, πηδόν), and 'a plain or field' pedíon (πεδίον) 'Relating to...
- with lyrics Sahir Ludhianvi, creating memorable songs like "Parbaton Ke Pedon Par Shaam" sung by Mohammed Rafi and Suman Kalyanpur and "Tum Apna Ranj-o-gham"...
- parallēl ("parallel") + epípedon ("plane surface"), from epí- ("on") + pedon ("ground"). Thus the faces of a parallelepiped are planar, with opposite...
- Sign of the Beast (Finnish: Pedon merkki) is a 1981 Finnish drama film co-written and directed by Jaakko Pakkasvirta. It is based on the 1946 book A Gloomy...
- generally more prominent in the A horizon. It has been suggested that the pedon, a column of soil extending vertically from the surface to the underlying...
- Pedology (from Gr****: πέδον, pedon, "soil"; and λόγος, logos, "study") is a discipline within soil science which focuses on understanding and characterizing...
- Models featured included Norma Stitz, Traci Lords, Candy Samples, Roberta Pedon and Tina Small. The magazine was published by George W. Mavety's publishing...