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Pugakhanda (puga khanda)

Pugakhanda (Pūga Khaṇḍa, Supari Paka), an areca-nut-based granular Ayurvedic avaleha from Bhaishajya Ratnavali, listed in the API/AFI for infertility, Pradara, and debility, dose 6-12 g with milk.

Pugalendi

Pugalendi (Pugazhendhi Pulavar) was a medieval Tamil poet, honored as "Pugazhendhi of the venba," who retold the Nala and Damayanti story from the Mahabharata in his Nalavenba.

Puget Sinus

Puget Sinus is a 93-km-wide bay (sinus) on Titan at 82.4°N, 241.1°W, an arm of northern Ligeia Mare into which Xanthus Flumen flows; IAU-named in 2015 after Puget Sound, Washington, USA.

Puget Sound is a deep glacial fjord estuary in Washington state within the Salish Sea, the largest US estuary by volume, with two-layer exchange circulation, dissolved-oxygen impairment from nutrients, and major salmon, shellfish, and port economies.

Puget Sound Energy

Puget Sound Energy is an investor-owned utility headquartered in Bellevue, Washington, serving about 1.1 million electric and 800,000 gas customers; its gas business dates to 1873, and its present name was adopted in 1997.

Puget Sound Naval Shipyard

Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, also known as the Bremerton Navy Yard, is a US Navy shipyard in Bremerton, Washington, established in 1891 and designated a shipyard in 1901.

Puget Sound refinery

The Puget Sound Refinery is an oil refinery in Anacortes, Washington, owned by HF Sinclair since 2021 and operating since 1957, with a capacity of 149,000 barrels per day.

Puget Sound region

Puget Sound region: northwestern Washington area around the glacial fjord-like estuary Puget Sound and the Salish Sea straits. 13 counties, Coast Salish tribes, 1854-56 treaties, Seattle metro GDP $487.8 billion (2023), 70-80% estuarine habitat lost.

Puget Sound War

The Puget Sound War, also called the Puget Sound Indian War or Puget Sound Treaty War, was an 1855–1856 conflict between tribes of southern Puget Sound and U.S. Army and territorial militia forces.

Pugnax

Pugnax, extinct rhynchonellid brachiopod genus (Hall & Clarke, 1893), type species P. pugnus, Middle Devonian to Upper Permian, cosmopolitan; also epithet of fiddler crab, rice stink bug, Betta, and others.

Oct 20, 2026

Pugnoides

Pugnoides, extinct rhynchonellid brachiopod genus named by Weller in 1910, family Petasmariidae, coarsely ribbed, ranging from the Devonian (388 Ma) to the Permian (260 Ma).

Sep 19, 2026

PUGNUS-mili II

PUGNUS-mili II was an early Iron Age king of Melid in south-eastern Turkey, known from inscribed reliefs at Arslantepe dated to the 12th–11th century BC.

Pugos Corona

Pugos Corona is a 180 km corona on Venus at 19°S, 335°E, in the Carson Quadrangle (V-43), IAU-named in 1997 for a Khanty life-bringing goddess and not interpreted as a classical corona.

Pugsley Addams

Pugsley Addams, originally to be named Pubert, is the son of Gomez and Morticia in Charles Addams's Addams Family cartoons from 1938; named for the 1964 ABC series, played by Ken Weatherwax, later by Workman, Wolfhard, and Ordonez.

Sep 23, 2026

Pugu Huaien

Pugu Huaien (仆固怀恩, died 765) was a Tang general and Shuofang military commissioner who helped end the An Lushan rebellion, then led Uyghur and Tibetan armies against the Tang.

Puguang Gas Field

Puguang Gas Field (普光气田) is a giant high-sulfur natural gas field in Dazhou, northeastern Sichuan Basin, China, discovered in 2003 and operated by Sinopec, with over 9 trillion cubic feet of proven reserves.

Pui Pui (crocodile)

Pui Pui, female saltwater crocodile (Crocodylus porosus) found in Shan Pui River, Hong Kong, 2003; evaded hunters seven months, captured 2004, resident of Hong Kong Wetland Park since 2006.

Sep 21, 2026

Pui–Yan Kwok

Pui–Yan Kwok is a human geneticist who developed single-molecule methods for reading haplotypes and assembling whole human genomes, and who led the Taiwan Precision Medicine Initiative.

Puig (company)

Puig, formally Puig Brands, S.A., is a Spanish family-owned premium beauty company in Barcelona, founded in 1914, whose brands include Rabanne, Carolina Herrera, and Charlotte Tilbury.

Puig de S. Andreu

Puig de Sant Andreu (Puig de Sant Andreu d'Ullastret) is the hilltop site of the largest Iberian settlement of its period in Catalonia, capital of the Indigetes, peaking in the 4th-3rd centuries BC with about 6,000 inhabitants, walled with towers and a rock-cut moat.

Sep 19, 2026

Puig des Molins

Puig des Molins is the Phoenician-Punic necropolis of Ibiza, used from the 7th century BC and regarded as the largest and best-preserved in the western Mediterranean.

Sep 19, 2026

Puig family

The Puig family is a Spanish business dynasty from Barcelona, founded in 1914 by Antonio Puig Castelló and controlling Puig Brands, owner of Rabanne and Carolina Herrera.

Puiseux series

A Puiseux series is a power series in fractional powers of a variable that expresses the local behavior of algebraic functions; the method goes back to Newton.

Puisi Baru

Puisi Baru, meaning "new poetry," is the modern form of Indonesian poetry that emerged in the 1920s, freer in form than traditional puisi lama while keeping rhyme and rhythm.

Puisi konkret

Puisi konkret, also called concrete or pattern poetry, is poetry realized in graphic form, with dots, lines, planes, or images that visually support the poem's content and atmosphere.

Puisi Prosa

Puisi prosa, or prose poem, is a hybrid literary form written as prose without line breaks but reading as poetry through rhythm, figures of speech, repetition, and compression.

Puiyan Leung

Puiyan Leung is a Singapore-based venture capital investor who serves as Partner, Investment at Vertex Ventures Southeast Asia and India, a Temasek-owned fund, investing across Southeast Asia and India.

Puja (पूजा) (Hinduism)

Puja (पूजा), also known as Pujah, is Hindu devotional worship of a deity through offerings before a consecrated image, performed daily in homes and temples and practiced by most Hindus.

Puja Banerjee

Puja Banerjee (Pooja Bose, পূজা বন্দ্যোপাধ্যায়), born 1987, is an Indian actress in Hindi TV, Hindi and Bengali films, known for Devon Ke Dev... Mahadev, Paap, and Cabaret; distinct from actress Pooja Banerjee born 1991.