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Of or pertaining to Bologna. -- n.

Pertaining to, or obtained from, the silkworm; as, bombic acid.

Like or pertaining to the genus Bombyx, or the family Bombycidæ.

Of or pertaining to Napoleon Bonaparte or his family.

Consisting of bone, or of bones; full of bones; pertaining to bones.

Pertaining to, or produced from, borax; containing boron; boric; as, boracic acid.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a family of plants (Boraginaceæ) which includes the borage, heliotrope, beggar's lice, and many pestiferous plants.

Pertaining to Bordeaux in the south of France. -- n.

Of or pertaining to Bordeaux, in France, or to the district around Bordeaux.

Northern; pertaining to the north, or to the north wind; as, a boreal bird; a boreal blast. So from their own clear north in radiant streams, Bright over Europe bursts the boreal morn. Thomson.

Of, pertaining to, or containing, boron. Boric acid, a white crystalline substance B(OH)3, easily obtained from its salts, and occurring in solution in the hot lagoons of Tuscany.

Of or pertaining to the bosom.

Of or pertaining to the Thracian or the Cimmerian Bosporus. The Alans forced the Bosporian kings to pay them tribute and exterminated the Taurians. Tooke.

Of or pertaining to botany; relating to the study of plants; as, a botanical system, arrangement, textbook, expedition. -- Botan"ic*al*ly, adv. Botanic garden, a garden devoted to the culture of plants collected for the purpose of illustrating the science of botany. -- Botanic physician, a physician whose medicines c…

Of or pertaining to Bothnia, a country of northern Europe, or to a gulf of the same name which forms the northern part of the Baltic sea.

Of or pertaining to the bottom; fundamental; lowest; under; as, bottom rock; the bottom board of a wagon box; bottom prices. Bottom glade, a low glade or open place; a valley; a dale. Milton. -Bottom grass, grass growing on bottom lands. -- Bottom land. See 1st Bottom, n., 7.

of or pertaining to the genus Bos; relating to, or resembling, the ox or cow; oxlike; as, the bovine genus; a bovine antelope.

Made of boxwood; pertaining to, or resembling, the box (Buxus). [R.] The faded hue of sapless boxen leaves. Dryden.

Pertaining to Brabant, an ancient province of the Netherlands.

Pertaining or belonging to the arm; as, the brachial artery; the brachial nerve.