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Aliment; food. Dunglison.

An oily, colorless fluid, CBr

A colorless or white crystalline compound, (CH2)6N4C2H5Br, used as a sedative in epilepsy.

A substance analogous to chloranil but containing bromine in place of chlorine.

To combine or impregnate with bromine; as, bromated camphor.

One versed in the science of foods.

The science of aliments. Dunglison.

A tumor consisting mainly of fibrous tissue, or of same modification of such tissue.

Same as Hydrobromide.

A salt of perbromic acid.

A genus of small trees. See Cacao.

See Bromate, v. t.

Silver bromide, a rare mineral; -- called also bromargyrite.

A small evergreen tree (Theobroma Cacao) of South America and the West Indies. Its fruit contains an edible pulp, inclosing seeds about the size of an almond, from which cocoa, chocolate, and broma are prepared.

A paste or cake composed of the roasted seeds of the Theobroma Cacao ground and mixed with other ingredients, usually sugar, and cinnamon or vanilla.

A fibroid tumor; a fibroma. Fibroid degeneration, a form of degeneration in which organs or tissues are converted into fibroid tissue. -- Fibroid phthists, a form of pulmonary consumption associated with the formation of fibrous tissue in the lungs, and the gradual atrophy of the lungs, from the pressure due to the co…

An oily liquid, Cl3.CHO, analogous to chloral and bromal.

ical terms to denote a morbid condition of some part, usually some kind of tumor; as in fibroma, glaucoma.

al order (Sterculiaceæ) of polypetalous exogenous plants, mostly tropical. The cacao (Theobroma Cacao) is the most useful plant of the order.

Of, pertaining to, or designating, an acid extracted from cacao butter (from the Theobroma Cacao), peanut oil (from Arachis hypogæa), etc., as a white waxy crystalline substance.