| bread | 1. An article of food made from flour or meal by moistening, kneading, and baking. Raised bread is made with yeast, salt, and sometimes a little butter or lard, and is mixed with warm milk or water to form the dough, which, after kneading, is given time to rise before baking. Cream of tartar bread is raised by the action of an alkaline carbonate or bicarbonate (as saleratus or ammonium bicarbonate) and cream of tartar (acid tartrate of potassium) or some acid. Unleavened bread is usually mixed with water and salt only. Aerated bread. See Aerated. Bread and butter, means of living. Brown bread, Indian bread, Graham bread, Rye and Indian bread. See Brown bread, under Brown. Bread tree. See Breadfruit. 2. Food; sustenance; support of life, in general. "Give us this day our daily bread." (Matt. Vi. 11) Origin: AS. Bread; akin to OFries. Brad, OS. Brd, D. Brood, G. Brod, brot, Icel. Brau, Sw. & Dan. Brod. The root is probably that of E. Brew. See Brew. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| bread pill | A placebo made of bread crumbs or other inactive substances. (05 Mar 2000) |
| bread-and-butter pericardium | Fibrinous pericarditis in which the visceral and parietal surfaces of the pericardium resemble those of two pieces of buttered bread that have been pressed together and then pulled apart, when they are separated at surgery or necropsy. (05 Mar 2000) |
| breadbasket | The stomach. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| breadfruit | <botany> 1. The fruit of a tree (Artocarpus incisa) found in the islands of the Pacific, especially. The South Sea islands. It is of a roundish form, from four to six or seven inches in diameter, and, when baked, somewhat resembles bread, and is eaten as food, whence the name. 2. <botany> The tree itself, which is one of considerable size, with large, lobed leaves. Cloth is made from the bark, and the timber is used for many purposes. Synonym: breadfruit tree and bread tree. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| breadroot | <botany> The root of a leguminous plant (Psoralea esculenta), found near the Rocky Mountains. It is usually oval in form, and abounds in farinaceous matter, affording sweet and palatable food. It is the Pomme blanche of Canadian voyageurs. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| monkey-bread | <botany> The fruit of the Adansonia digitata; also, the tree. See Adansonia. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| pink bread mold | A fungus of the group Ascomycetes. It is haploid and grows as a mycelium. There are two mating types and fusion of nuclei of two opposite types leads to meiosis followed by mitosis. The resulting eight nuclei generate eight ascospores. These are arranged linearly in an ordered fashion in a pod like ascus, so that the various products of meiotic division can be identified and isolated. Because of this, Neurospora crassa is one of the classic organisms for genetic research, studies on biochemical mutants led Beadle and Tatum to propose the seminal one gene one enzyme hypothesis. (18 Nov 1997) |