| aw | airway; water activity |
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| BDW | buffered distilled water |
| BTPS | at body temperature and ambient pressure, and saturated with water vapor [gas] |
| BW | bacteriological warfare; bed wetting; below waist; biological warfare; biological weapon; birth weig... |
| BWFI | bacteriostatic water for injection |
| sea partridge | <zoology> The gilthead (Crenilabrus melops), a fish of the British coasts. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| sea peach | <zoology> A beautiful American ascidian (Cynthia, or Halocynthia, pyriformis) having the size, form, velvety surface, and colour of a ripe peach. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sea pear | <zoology> A pedunculated ascidian of the genus Boltonia. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sea-pen | <zoology> A pennatula. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sea perch | <zoology> The European bass (Roccus, or Labrax, lupus); called also sea dace. The cunner. The sea bass. The name is applied also to other species of fishes. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sea pheasant | <zoology> The pintail duck. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sea pie | A dish of crust or pastry and meat or fish, etc, cooked together in alternate layers, a common food of sailors; as, a three-decker sea pie. <zoology> The oyster catcher, a limicoline bird of the genus Haematopus. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sea piet | <zoology> See 1st Sea pie. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sea pig | <zoology> A porpoise or dolphin. A dugong. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sea pike | <zoology> The garfish. A large serranoid food fish (Centropomus undecimalis) found on both coasts of America; called also robalo. The merluce. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sea pincushion | <zoology> A sea purse. A pentagonal starfish. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sea pink | <botany> See Thrift. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sea poppy | <botany> The horn poppy. See Horn. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sea porcupine | <zoology> Any fish of the genus Diodon, and allied genera, whose body is covered with spines. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sea pork | <zoology> An American compound ascidian (Amoraecium stellatum) which forms large whitish masses resembling salt pork. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |