polonies

Noun (1)

polony (plural polonies)

1. A kind of sausage made of meat that has been only partly cooked.
   • A dreadful day it was for young Dobbin when one of the youngsters of the school, having run into the town upon a poaching excursion for hardbake and polonies, espied the cart of Dobbin & Rudge, Grocers and Oilmen, Thames Street, London, at the Doctor's door, discharging a cargo of the wares in...1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 4, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC

Noun (2)

polony

1. A cluster of polymers produced by clonal amplification of DNA.
   • Fluorescent in situ sequencing (FISSEQ) or beadbased polony sequencing FISSEQ involves localized amplification of single DNA molecules, using an acrylarnide gel, thus creating colonies of PCR product that are called polonies.2008, Proceedings, National Academy of Sciences, India, page 97

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