Usually means: Flat, broad, typically used geologically.
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General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. platy: Merriam-Webster
  2. platy-: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. platy, platy, platy-: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. platy, platy-: Collins English Dictionary
  5. platy: Vocabulary.com
  6. platy, platy-: Wordnik
  7. platy, platy-: Wiktionary
  8. platy, platy-: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. platy, platy-: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. platy: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Platy-, Platy, platy, platy-: Dictionary.com
  12. Platy (fish), Platy: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Platy-, Platy: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. platy, platy-: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. platy: Rhymezone
  16. Platy-, Platy: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. platy, platy-: MyWord.info
  18. platy, platy-: FreeDictionary.org
  19. platy: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. platy, platy-: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. platy-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. platy: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Platy-: MedFriendly Glossary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. platy, platy-: Medical dictionary

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Roots of Botanical Names (No longer online)

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. platy: Canadian Soil Information System

(Note: See platier as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Platy)

adjective:  Resembling plates.
adjective:  (heraldry) Semy of plates (roundels argent).
adjective:  (geology, mineralogy) Composed of thin plate-like pieces of rock or mineral.
noun:  Any of two species (and hybrids) of tropical fish of the genus Xiphophorus (which also includes the swordtails).
noun:  A town in Central Macedonia, Greece.
noun:  A small village on Lemnos, Greece.

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