Pi Lovers’ Thesaurus
À La Mode , Pi
SN the mathematical way of having ice-cream
Apple Pi USE Fruit Pi
Berry Pi
SN a group including black-, blue-, goose-, huckle-, logan-, marion-, rasp-, and strawberries, which must be multiplied to be used
NT Blackberry, Blueberry, Boysenberry, Gooseberry, Huckleberry, Loganberry, Marionberry, Raspberry, Strawberry, Strawberry Rhubarb Pi
Blackberry Pi USE Berry Pi
Blueberry Pi USE Berry Pi
Boysenberry Pi USE Berry Pi
Cherry Pi USE Fruit Pi
Chocolate Pi USE Meringue Pi
Christmas Pi UF Mincemeat Pi
SN composed of the right proportions of meat, dried fruit, spice, suet, and spirits (and Christmas spirit, too)
RT Meat Pi
Coconut Cream Pi USE Meringue Pi
Cow Pi
SN the remainder after chewing the cud
Cream Pi
SN usually thrown in the face of numerical nitwits
RT Meringue Pi
Cutie Pi UF QT Pi
SN common misconstrual of mathematical speech; mathematicians rarely find numbers to be “cute”
Fruit Pi
SN a group including apples, cherries, peaches, and plums, which are commonly divided before use
NT Apple, Cherry, Peach, Plum Pi
RT Christmas Pi
Gooseberry Pi USE Berry Pi
Hole, Pi-
SN a pi-shaped void, the anatomical equivalent of a black hole
Honey Pi
SN the product of apian geometry
Huckleberry Pi USE Berry Pi
Humble Pi
SN the kind you eat when there is an awful flaw in what you thought you'd proved perfectly
Key Lime Pi USE Meringue Pi
Kidney Pi USE Meat Pi
Lemon Meringue Pi USE Meringue Pi
Loganberry Pi USE Berry Pi
Mag Pi
SN a number loving kind of bird
Marionberry Pi USE Blackberry Pi
Meat Pi
SN a group comprised of meat parts, which are added together (e.g. steak + kidney)
NT Mincemeat, Steak & Kidney Pi
RT Christmas Pi
Meringue Pi
SN the result achieved by carefully following a delicate order of operations
NT Chocolate, Coconut Cream, Key Lime, Lemon Meringue Pi
RT Cream Pi
Mincemeat PiUSE Meat Pi
Moon Pi
SN makes one contemplate things of great distance or magnitude, like the infinite decimals of pi
Mud Pi
SN pi for those who like to get their hands dirty with math
P-Can Pi
SN a popular pantry item for those worried about having no pi (or worse, negative pi)
Peach Pi USE Fruit Pi
Pecan Pi USE P-Can Pi
Pi in the sky USE Sky, Pi in the
Pied Piper USE Piper, Pi-d
Pi-man
SN the one you go to in a pinch for good number sense
Piper, Pi-d
SN a very elusive individual who has the rare ability to seduce others with math
Pizza Pi
SN an Italian variety involving the combination of various toppings in any number and order
Plum Pi USE Fruit Pi
Pot Pi
SN no mater the circumference, if a pot is circular it has a Pi in it
Pumpkin Pi
SN a holiday offering to give thanks for the discovery of the circumference divided by the diameter, among other things
QT Pi USE Cutie Pi
Raspberry Pi USE Berry Pi
Rhubarb Pi
SN a pi valued by sages in the ancient far east (like many other significant discoveries) for its medicinal qualities before becoming barbarized in the west
NT Strawberry Rhubarb Pi
Shepherd's Pi
SN pi which a shepherd is never without whether or not it helps to count the sheep
Shoe Fly Pi
SN one of Archimedes' lesser known inventions
Sky, pi in the
SN a pleasant but improbable possibility (for if wishes were pis we'd all be quite fat)
Steak & Kidney Pi USE Meat Pi
Strawberry Pi USE Berry Pi
Strawberry Rhubarb Pi USE Berry Pi, Rhubarb Pi
Sugar Pi USE Sweetie Pi
Sweetie Pi
SN a term of endearment used by math nerds
NT sugar
Whoopie Pi
SN the kind of pi that comes in the wrong place at the wrong time or at just the right time depending upon your perspective
This thesaurus aims to define the preferred terms relating to the kinds of pi as well as their hierarchical arrangement. To that end it indicates the scope of each preferred term (SN = scope note, i.e. definition). Unpreferred synonyms are listed with a direction to the proper term (UF = use for, USE = use). For additional clarity, preferred (and illustrated) terms are boldified. Relationships between terms are listed as well (RT = related term, NT = marrower term, BT = broader term) to help navigation of this thesaurus.