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Personae

Persona \Per*so"na\, n.; pl. Person[ae]. [L.] (Biol.) Same as Person, n., 8.

Personae

Morphon \Mor"phon\, n. [Gr. ?, p. pr. of ? to form.] (Biol.) A morphological individual, characterized by definiteness of form, in distinction from bion, a physiological individual. See Tectology. --Haeckel. Note: Of morphons there are six orders or categories:

  1. Plastids or elementary organisms.

  2. Organs, homoplastic or heteroplastic.

  3. Antimeres (opposite or symmetrical or homotypic parts).

  4. Metameres (successive or homodynamous parts).

  5. Person[ae] (shoots or buds of plants, individuals in the narrowest sense among the higher animals).

  6. Corms (stocks or colonies). For orders 2, 3, and 4 the term idorgan has been recently substituted. See Idorgan.

Wiktionary
personae

n. (plural of persona lang=en nodot=1) ((alternative spelling of personæ lang=en nocap=1 nodot=1)).

WordNet
persona
  1. n. an actor's portrayal of someone in a play; "she played the part of Desdemona" [syn: character, role, theatrical role, part]

  2. (Jungian psychology) a personal facade that one presents to the world; "a public image is as fragile as Humpty Dumpty" [syn: image]

  3. [also: personae (pl)]

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Wikipedia
Personae (album)

Personae is a live album by bassist Jonas Hellborg, released on 26 February 2002 through Bardo Records. The album continues the series of live recordings by the trio of Hellborg, guitarist Shawn Lane and drummer Jeff Sipe.

Usage examples of "personae".

Dramatis Personae might have a dodgy reputation, but no one had ever accused them of killing a member of the audience.

The following Dramatis Personae may be of help in resolving ambiguities.

In some rational compartment of his mind that had now become irrelevant, Hackworth wondered whether Dramatis Personae (for this was the name of the troupe that was running this show) had got some nanosites into his system, and if so what exactly they were doing to his mind.

It had quickly become clear to Hackworth that a man could get a bad reputation simply for having known that Dramatis Personae existed-at the same time, it was clear that almost everyone had heard about it.

This was fortunate as he had gone into a slow backward spin and soon found himself falling face-first, passing through great amorphous clouds of light: a collection of old chandeliers that Dramatis Personae had scavenged from condemned buildings.

Carl Hollywood had known little of Hackworth until several hours ago, when, alerted by a friend in Dramatis Personae, he had joined his story in progress on the black decks of the show boat.

Billions of the parasitic personae ebb and flow in unholy alliances built to control or predict events.

You see, Core personae refuse to die unless they are forced to -- Meina Gladstone's deathbomb attack on the farcaster medium not only caused the Fall of the Farcasters, it killed billions of would-be immortal Core personae -- but the individuals refuse to make way for others without a fight.

Multiply your personae, miniaturize essential Core memories, and make your parasitism on the human neural networks more direct .

But have you perhaps any of these personae from different fields, of a more docile nature?

And here, stacked neatly in their leather-like curved cases, were some of the personae that he liked best to study.