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Pucca (짜장소녀 뿌까) (TV series)
Pucca (짜장소녀 뿌까) is a 2006–2008 Flash-animated comedy-adventure TV series by Studio B Productions and Jetix Europe, based on Vooz's e-card character; 117 episodes about Pucca chasing ninja Garu in Sooga Village.
Puccinellia
Puccinellia (alkali grass, saltgrass) is a Poaceae genus of about 80-120 accepted species of annual or perennial halophytic grasses of damp saline habitats, subarctic to temperate worldwide; P. tenuiflora and P. nuttalliana are studied salt-tolerance models.
Puccini (Mercurian crater)
Puccini is a 76-km-wide impact crater on Mercury at about 65.4°S, 45.3°W, named for the Italian composer Giacomo Puccini and approved by the IAU in 1976.
Puccinia
Puccinia, the largest rust fungus genus (~4,000 species, Pucciniales), obligate plant pathogens with bi-celled teliospores; includes wheat stem, leaf, and stripe rust pathogens; polyphyletic per molecular phylogenies.
Puccinia horiana
Puccinia horiana, chrysanthemum white rust, is an autoecious microcyclic rust fungus of Chrysanthemum × morifolium producing only teliospores and basidiospores; an EPPO A2 quarantine pest originating in Japan, diagnosed by smooth in situ-germinating teliospores and ITS-based PCR.
Puccinia melanocephala
Puccinia melanocephala, the brown rust fungus of sugarcane (distinct from P. kuehnii orange rust), spread from Africa into the Americas in 1978 and causes 10-50% yield losses, managed mainly by resistant varieties.
Puccinia monoica
Puccinia monoica, a rust fungus (basionym Aecidium monoicum Peck 1879), infects crucifers like Arabis and Boechera stricta, inducing pseudoflowers that mimic buttercups to attract insects for fungal sexual reproduction; part of a four-species complex with cryptic species.
Puccinia sorghi
Puccinia sorghi, common maize rust fungus, heteroecious with Oxalis alternate hosts and five spore stages; overwinters in Mexico and southern U.S., wind-blown urediniospores infect corn in cool, humid weather; distinguished from southern rust by pustules on both leaf surfaces.
Pucciniales
Pucciniales, equivalent to the older name Uredinales, is the order of rust fungi, obligately plant-pathogenic Basidiomycetes with roughly 7,000 to 8,000 species, including the large genus Puccinia.
Puce
Puce is a brownish-purple color, French for "flea" (Latin pulex); used in English from 1782, popular in 18th-century French fashion because it did not soil easily, and unrelated to the obsolete color word "puke".
Pucha Surf Club
Pucha Surf Club, Playa Venao, Panama; surf school of Sonia "Pucha" García, ten-time national champion; lessons from 45 US$/hour, packages with lodging, meals, yoga; beginner beach break.
Pucheng power station
Pucheng power station (华电蒲城发电厂) is a six-unit coal-fired power station of about 2,580 MW at Sun Town in Pucheng County, Weinan, Shaanxi, China, built in phases from 1996 to 2008.
Puchong
Puchong, a major town and parliamentary constituency in Petaling District, Selangor, Malaysia; former tin-mining and rubber estate turned Klang Valley suburb of over 400,000 people, served by the LDP, Kesas, and SKVE highways.
Puchou Catenae
Puchou Catenae (formerly Pu Chou Chasma) is a 620 km crater chain on Saturn's moon Rhea, IAU-approved in 2010, named for the Chinese mythological mountain tilted by the monster Kung Chung.
Puck
Puck (S/1985 U1, Uranus XV) is the largest small inner moon of Uranus, about 150 km across, discovered December 30, 1985 by Voyager 2, orbiting between the epsilon ring and Miranda, named for Shakespeare's sprite.
Puck (A Midsummer Night's Dream)
Puck, also called Robin Goodfellow, is the mischievous fairy servant of Oberon in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream (written c. 1595-96, published 1600), drawn from Anglo-Saxon puca folklore; his love-juice error and ass's head prank drive the comedy, and his epilogue breaks the fourth wall.
Puck (Glee)
Noah "Puck" Puckerman is the football-player bad boy of Glee (2009-2015), played by Mark Salling; a Jewish bully who joins New Directions, fathers Quinn's daughter Beth, later joins the Air Force, with 80 episodes and 57 songs.
Puck (magazine)
Puck was an American humor and political satire magazine published from 1876 to 1918, created by cartoonist Joseph Keppler and known for its full-color political cartoons.
Puckle gun
The Puckle gun was a tripod-mounted flintlock firearm with a hand-turned revolving cylinder, patented in London by James Puckle in 1718 and often described as an early machine gun.
Pucotenlimab
Pucotenlimab (HX008, PUYOUHENG) is a humanized IgG4 anti-PD-1 monoclonal antibody by Lepu Biopharma, conditionally approved in China in 2022 for second-line melanoma and MSI-H/dMMR solid tumors, with ORR 20.17% in melanoma and 49% in dMMR/MSI-H tumors.
Pudd'nhead Wilson
Pudd'nhead Wilson is an 1894 Mark Twain novel set in Missouri during slavery days, in which an enslaved woman switches her infant son with her master's son.
Pudding
Pudding is a food word with split meanings: in British English a dessert, dessert course, or boiled/steamed sweet or savory dish; in American English a milk-based custard-like dessert. From Middle English poding, a sausage (Latin botellus).
Puddle of Mudd
Puddle of Mudd, American post-grunge/alternative metal band from Kansas City formed in 1992 around Wes Scantlin; breakthrough 2001 triple-platinum album Come Clean with singles "Blurry" and "She Hates Me."
Pudendal nerve
Pudendal nerve (Alcock's canal nerve), paired S2–S4 sacral plexus nerve supplying perineum, genital sensation, and anal and urethral sphincters; compression causes pudendal neuralgia, diagnosed by Nantes criteria and treated with blocks, stimulation, or decompression.
Pudendal nerve entrapment syndrome
Pudendal nerve entrapment syndrome is a rare chronic neuropathic pain condition caused by compression or irritation of the pudendal nerve, most often in Alcock's canal, with pain typically worsened by sitting.
Pudgy Penguins
Pudgy Penguins is a global entertainment and consumer-products brand that began as a collection of 8,888 penguin NFTs on Ethereum in July 2021, since expanded into toys and games.
Pudhiya Paadhai
Pudhiya Paadhai (புதிய பாதை, New Path), also spelled Pudhea Paadhai, is a 1989 Tamil drama and R. Parthiban's directorial debut, a box-office success that won two National Film Awards including Best Tamil Feature Film.
Pudhiya Vaarpugal
Pudhiya Vaarpugal (புதிய வார்ப்புகள், New Moulds) is a 1979 Tamil romantic drama directed and produced by Bharathiraja, starring K. Bhagyaraj in his lead debut and Rati Agnihotri in her screen debut, with music by Ilaiyaraaja.
Pudhu Pudhu Arthangal (புதுப்புது அர்த்தங்கள்)
Pudhu Pudhu Arthangal (புதுப்புது அர்த்தங்கள்) is a 1989 Tamil film written and directed by K. Balachander, starring Rahman, Geetha, and Sithara, whose Ilaiyaraaja score marked their last collaboration and which won a Filmfare Award South.
Pudhumaipithan
Pudhumaipithan (புதுமைப்பித்தன்), the pen name of C. Vridhachalam (1906–1948), was an influential Tamil writer who wrote about 100 short stories and brought realism, satire, and modernist technique to Tamil fiction.