| Bottcher's space | The blind pouch at the end of the endolymphatic duct. (12 Dec 1998) |
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| Bottcher, Arthur | <person> Estonian anatomist, 1831-1889. See: Bottcher's canal, Bottcher's cells, Bottcher's crystals, Bottcher's ganglion, Bottcher's space, Charcot-Bottcher crystalloids. (05 Mar 2000) |
| bottle | 1. A hollow vessel, usually of glass or earthenware (but formerly of leather), with a narrow neck or mouth, for holding liquids. 2. The contents of a bottle; as much as a bottle contains; as, to drink a bottle of wine. 3. Intoxicating liquor; as, to drown one's reason in the bottle. Bottle is much used adjectively, or as the first part of a compound. Bottle ale, bottled ale. Bottle brush, a cylindrical brush for cleansing the interior of bottles. <marine biology> Bottle fish, a kind of deep-sea eel (Saccopharynx ampullaceus), remarkable for its baglike gullet, which enables it to swallow fishes two or three times its won size. Bottle flower. <botany> An Australian tree (Sterculia rupestris), with a bottle-shaped, or greatly swollen, trunk. Feeding bottle, Nursing bottle, a bottle with a rubber nipple (generally with an intervening tubve), used in feeding infants. Origin: OE. Bote, botelle, OF. Botel, bouteille, F. Bouteille, fr. LL. Buticula, dim. Of butis, buttis, butta, flask. Cf. Butt a cask. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| bottle cell | <embryology> The first cells to migrate inwards at the blastopore during amphibian gastrulation. The neck of the bottle is at the outer surface of the embryo. (18 Nov 1997) |
| bottle feeding | Use of nursing bottles for feeding. Applies to humans and animals. (12 Dec 1998) |
| bottle-nose | <zoology> 1. A cetacean of the Dolphin family, of several species, as Delphinus Tursio and Lagenorhyncus leucopleurus, of Europe. 2. The puffin. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| bottlehead | <zoology> A cetacean allied to the grampus; called also bottle-nosed whale. There are several species so named, as the pilot whales, of the genus Globicephalus, and one or more species of Hyperoodon (H. Bidens, etc), found on the European coast. See Blackfish. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| bottom | 1. The lowest part of anything; the foot; as, the bottom of a tree or well; the bottom of a hill, a lane, or a page. "Or dive into the bottom of the deep." (Shak) 2. The part of anything which is beneath the contents and supports them, as the part of a chair on which a person sits, the circular base or lower head of a cask or tub, or the plank floor of a ship's hold; the under surface. "Barrels with the bottom knocked out." (Macaulay) "No two chairs were alike; such high backs and low backs and leather bottoms and worsted bottoms." (W. Irving) 3. That upon which anything rests or is founded, in a literal or a figurative sense; foundation; groundwork. 4. The bed of a body of water, as of a river, lake, sea. 5. The fundament; the buttocks. 6. An abyss. 7. Low land formed by alluvial deposits along a river; low-lying ground; a dale; a valley. "The bottoms and the high grounds." 8. The part of a ship which is ordinarily under water; hence, the vessel itself; a ship. "My ventures are not in one bottom trusted." (Shak) "Not to sell the teas, but to return them to London in the same bottoms in which they were shipped." (Bancroft) Full bottom, a hull of such shape as permits carrying a large amount of merchandise. 9. Power of endurance; as, a horse of a good bottom. 10. Dregs or grounds; lees; sediment. at bottom, At the bottom, at the foundation or basis; in reality. "He was at the bottom a good man." To be at the bottom of, to be the cause or originator of; to be the source of. "He was at the bottom of many excellent counsels." (Addison) To go to the bottom, to sink; especially. To be wrecked. To touch bottom, to reach the lowest point; to find something on which to rest. Origin: OE. Botum, botme, AS. Botm; akin to OS. Bodom, D. Bodem, OHG. Podam, G. Boden, Icel. Botn, Sw. Botten, Dan. Bund (for budn), L. Fundus (for fudnus), Gr. (for), Skr. Budhna (for bhudhna), and Ir. Bonn sole of the foot, W. Bon stem, base. 257>. Cf. 4th Found, Fund. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| bottom ash | Noncombustable ash that is left after solid fuel has been burned. (05 Dec 1998) |
| bottoming cycle | A cogeneration system in which steam is used first for process heat and then for electric power production. (05 Dec 1998) |
| bottomland | <ecology> Lowlands along streams and rivers, usually on alluvial floodplains, that are periodically flooded. (09 Oct 1997) |
| botts | <zoology> See Bots. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| botuliform | <botany> Having the shape of a sausage. Origin: L. Botulus sausage. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| botulin | <protein> A very strong poison which affects the nervous system, made by the bacteria Clostridium botulinum. The poison causes the food poisoning known as botulism. (09 Oct 1997) |
| botulinogenic | Botulism-producing. Synonym: botulinogenic. (05 Mar 2000) |
| botuliform |
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botulin: potent bacterial toxin produced by the bacterium Clostridium botulinum that causes botulism; can be used as a bioweapon
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| BOT | large extremely venomous pit viper of Central and South America |
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| BOT | (of a heraldic cross) having a cluster of three buttons or knobs at the end of each arm |
| BOT | (of a heraldic cross) having a cluster of three buttons or knobs at the end of each arm |
| BOT | grape fern |
| BOT | of America and Eurasia and Australia |
| BOT | of North America and Eurasia |
| BOT | European fern with leathery and sparsely hairy fronds |
| BOT | American fern whose clustered sporangia resemble a snake's rattle |
| BOT | resembling a cluster of grapes in form |
| BOT | resembling a cluster of grapes in form |
| BOT | a landlocked republic in south-central Africa that became independent from British control in the 1960s |
| BOT | monetary unit in Botswana |