porphyrogenitism

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Definition of porphyrogenitism in English English dictionary

The coarse-grained brownish yellow wood of a small tree (Pisonia obtusata) of Florida and the West Indies

Of or pertaining to pornography; lascivious; licentious; as, pornographic writing

A pig; a porket

The principle of succession in royal families, especially among the Eastern Roman emperors, by which a younger son, if born after the accession of his father to the throne, was preferred to an elder son who was not so born

Lascivious; licentious

Also called pigeon wood, beefwood, and corkwood

The quality or state of

Licentious painting or literature; especially, the painting anciently employed to decorate the walls of rooms devoted to bacchanalian orgies

A young hog; a pig

A treatise on prostitutes, or prostitution