The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Poly- \Pol"y-\ [See Full, a.]
   A combining form or prefix from Gr. poly`s, many; as,
   polygon, a figure of many angles; polyatomic, having many
   atoms; polychord, polyconic.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Poly \Po"ly\, n. [L. polium, the name of a plant, perhaps
   Teucrium polium, Gr. ?.] (Bot.)
   A whitish woolly plant (Teucrium Polium) of the order
   Labiat[ae], found throughout the Mediterranean region. The
   name, with sundry prefixes, is sometimes given to other
   related species of the same genus. [Spelt also poley.]
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   Poly mountain. See Poly-mountain, in Vocabulary.
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