Name Report For First Name BARNUM:
BARNUM
First name BARNUM's origin is Other. BARNUM means "from the nobleman's home". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with BARNUM below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of barnum.(Brown names are of the same origin (Other) with BARNUM and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)
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First Names Rhyming BARNUM
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anum khnumRhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (um) - Names That Ends with um:
kulthum geranium odahingum atum nefertum tum ur-atum calum colum lilium caellum calibum callum culum healum maccallum mekledoodum waeringawicum wiccum nahum machum tatum galvariumNAMES RHYMING WITH BARNUM (According to first letters):
Rhyming Names According to First 5 Letters (barnu) - Names That Begins with barnu:
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barnab barnabas barnabe barnaby barnahy barnard barnet barnett barneyRhyming Names According to First 3 Letters (bar) - Names That Begins with bar:
bar barabal barabell barak baraka barakah baram baran barbara barbel barbi barbie barbra barclay bard barda bardalph bardan bardaric bardarik bardawulf barday barden bardene bardo bardol bardolf bardolph bardon bardrick bardulf barend barhlo barhloew bari bariah barika barkarna barkarne barlow baron barr barra barrak barram barran barrani barre barret barrett barric barrick barrie barrington barron barry bart barta bartalan bartel barth barthelemy bartholomew barthram bartle bartleah bartleigh bartlett bartley bartol bartoli bartolo bartolome barton bartram baruch baruti barwolfRhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (ba) - Names That Begins with ba:
baal bab baba babafemi babatunde babette babu babukar bac baccaus baccus backstere bacstairNAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH BARNUM:
First Names which starts with 'ba' and ends with 'um':
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basim bassam beckham bem beorhthram beorhthramm beornham bertram blossom blostm bram brigbam briggebam briggeham brigham byramEnglish Words Rhyming BARNUM
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES BARNUM AS A WHOLE:
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH BARNUM (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 5 Letters (arnum) - English Words That Ends with arnum:
Rhyming Words According to Last 4 Letters (rnum) - English Words That Ends with rnum:
| alburnum | noun (n.) The white and softer part of wood, between the inner bark and the hard wood or duramen; sapwood. |
| entosternum | noun (n.) See Entoplastron. |
| episternum | noun (n.) A median bone connected with the sternum, in many vertebrates; the interclavicle. |
| noun (n.) Same as Epiplastron. | |
| noun (n.) One of the lateral pieces next to the sternum in the thorax of insects. |
| hyosternum | noun (n.) See Hyoplastron. |
| hyposternum | noun (n.) See Hypoplastron. |
| laburnum | noun (n.) A small leguminous tree (Cytisus Laburnum), native of the Alps. The plant is reputed to be poisonous, esp. the bark and seeds. It has handsome racemes of yellow blossoms. |
| mesosternum | noun (n.) The middle portion, or body, of the sternum. |
| noun (n.) The ventral piece of the middle segment of the thorax in insects. |
| metasternum | noun (n.) The most posterior element of the sternum; the ensiform process; xiphisternum. |
| noun (n.) The ventral plate of the third or last segment of the thorax of insects. |
| omosternum | noun (n.) The anterior element of the sternum which projects forward from between the clavicles in many batrachians and is usually tipped with cartilage. |
| noun (n.) In many mammals, an interarticular cartilage, or bone, between the sternum and the clavicle. |
| praesternum | noun (n.) Same as Preoral, Prepubis, Prescapula, etc. |
| presternum | noun (n.) The anterior segment of the sternum; the manubrium. |
| prosternum | noun (n.) The ventral plate of the prothorax of an insect. |
| sternum | noun (n.) A plate of cartilage, or a series of bony or cartilaginous plates or segments, in the median line of the pectoral skeleton of most vertebrates above fishes; the breastbone. |
| noun (n.) The ventral part of any one of the somites of an arthropod. |
| viburnum | noun (n.) A genus of shrubs having opposite, petiolate leaves and cymose flowers, several species of which are cultivated as ornamental, as the laurestine and the guelder-rose. |
| xiphisternum | noun (n.) The posterior segment, or extremity, of the sternum; -- sometimes called metasternum, ensiform cartilage, ensiform process, or xiphoid process. |
| noun (n.) The xiphiplastron. |
Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (num) - English Words That Ends with num:
| aluminum | noun (n.) See Aluminium. |
| arcanum | noun (n.) A secret; a mystery; -- generally used in the plural. |
| noun (n.) A secret remedy; an elixir. |
| buccinum | noun (n.) A genus of large univalve mollusks abundant in the arctic seas. It includes the common whelk (B. undatum). |
| crinum | noun (n.) A genus of bulbous plants, of the order Amaryllidace/, cultivated as greenhouse plants on account of their beauty. |
| damnum | noun (n.) Harm; detriment, either to character or property. |
| duodenum | noun (n.) The part of the small intestines between the stomach and the jejunum. See Illust. of Digestive apparatus, under Digestive. |
| fraenum | noun (n.) Alt. of Frenum |
| frenum | noun (n.) A connecting fold of membrane serving to support or restrain any part; as, the fraenum of the tongue. |
| noun (n.) A cheek stripe of color. | |
| noun (n.) Same as Fraenum. |
| galbanum | noun (n.) A gum resin exuding from the stems of certain Asiatic umbelliferous plants, mostly species of Ferula. The Bubon Galbanum of South Africa furnishes an inferior kind of galbanum. It has an acrid, bitter taste, a strong, unpleasant smell, and is used for medical purposes, also in the arts, as in the manufacture of varnish. |
| glucinum | noun (n.) A rare metallic element, of a silver white color, and low specific gravity (2.1), resembling magnesium. It never occurs naturally in the free state, but is always combined, usually with silica or alumina, or both; as in the minerals phenacite, chrysoberyl, beryl or emerald, euclase, and danalite. It was named from its oxide glucina, which was known long before the element was isolated. Symbol Gl. Atomic weight 9.1. Called also beryllium. |
| hypnum | noun (n.) The largest genus of true mosses; feather moss. |
| interregnum | noun (n.) The time during which a throne is vacant between the death or abdication of a sovereign and the accession of his successor. |
| noun (n.) Any period during which, for any cause, the executive branch of a government is suspended or interrupted. |
| jejunum | noun (n.) The middle division of the small intestine, between the duodenum and ileum; -- so called because usually found empty after death. |
| labdanum | noun (n.) See Ladanum. |
| ladanum | noun (n.) A gum resin gathered from certain Oriental species of Cistus. It has a pungent odor and is chiefly used in making plasters, and for fumigation. |
| lantanum | noun (n.) See Lanthanum. |
| lanthanum | noun (n.) A rare element of the group of the earth metals, allied to aluminium. It occurs in certain rare minerals, as cerite, gadolinite, orthite, etc., and was so named from the difficulty of separating it from cerium, didymium, and other rare elements with which it is usually associated. Atomic weight 138.5. Symbol La. |
| laudanum | noun (n.) Tincture of opium, used for various medical purposes. |
| linum | noun (n.) A genus of herbaceous plants including the flax (Linum usitatissimum). |
| magnum | noun (n.) A large wine bottle. |
| noun (n.) A bone of the carpus at the base of the third metacarpal bone. |
| mediastinum | noun (n.) A partition; a septum; specifically, the folds of the pleura (and the space included between them) which divide the thorax into a right and left cavity. The space included between these folds of the pleura, called the mediastinal space, contains the heart and gives passage to the esophagus and great blood vessels. |
| minum | noun (n.) A small kind of printing type; minion. |
| noun (n.) A minim. |
| molybdenum | noun (n.) A rare element of the chromium group, occurring in nature in the minerals molybdenite and wulfenite, and when reduced obtained as a hard, silver-white, difficulty fusible metal. Symbol Mo. Atomic weight 95.9. |
| olibanum | noun (n.) The fragrant gum resin of various species of Boswellia; Oriental frankincense. |
| organum | noun (n.) An organ or instrument; hence, a method by which philosophical or scientific investigation may be conducted; -- a term adopted from the Aristotelian writers by Lord Bacon, as the title ("Novum Organon") of part of his treatise on philosophical method. |
| origanum | noun (n.) A genus of aromatic labiate plants, including the sweet marjoram (O. Marjorana) and the wild marjoram (O. vulgare). |
| platinum | noun (n.) A metallic element, intermediate in value between silver and gold, occurring native or alloyed with other metals, also as the platinum arsenide (sperrylite). It is heavy tin-white metal which is ductile and malleable, but very infusible, and characterized by its resistance to strong chemical reagents. It is used for crucibles, for stills for sulphuric acid, rarely for coin, and in the form of foil and wire for many purposes. Specific gravity 21.5. Atomic weight 194.3. Symbol Pt. Formerly called platina. |
| plenum | noun (n.) That state in which every part of space is supposed to be full of matter; -- opposed to vacuum. |
| noun (n.) A condition, as in an occupied room, in which the pressure of the air is greater than that of the outside atmosphere; as, a plenum may exist in a hall ventilated by a fan blower. |
| polygonum | noun (n.) A genus of plants embracing a large number of species, including bistort, knotweed, smartweed, etc. |
| sagapenum | noun (n.) A fetid gum resin obtained from a species of Ferula. It has been used in hysteria, etc., but is now seldom met with. |
| solanum | noun (n.) A genus of plants comprehending the potato (S. tuberosum), the eggplant (S. melongena, and several hundred other species; nightshade. |
| sphagnum | noun (n.) A genus of mosses having white leaves slightly tinged with red or green and found growing in marshy places; bog moss; peat moss. |
| stannum | noun (n.) The technical name of tin. See Tin. |
| tympanum | noun (n.) The ear drum, or middle ear. Sometimes applied incorrectly to the tympanic membrane. See Ear. |
| noun (n.) A chamber in the anterior part of the syrinx of birds. | |
| noun (n.) One of the naked, inflatable air sacs on the neck of the prairie chicken and other species of grouse. | |
| noun (n.) The recessed face of a pediment within the frame made by the upper and lower cornices, being usually a triangular space or table. | |
| noun (n.) The space within an arch, and above a lintel or a subordinate arch, spanning the opening below the arch. | |
| noun (n.) A drum-shaped wheel with spirally curved partitions by which water is raised to the axis when the wheel revolves with the lower part of the circumference submerged, -- used for raising water, as for irrigation. |
| verumontanum | noun (n.) An elevation, or crest, in the wall of the urethra where the seminal ducts enter it. |
| vinum | noun (n.) Wine, -- chiefly used in Pharmacy in the name of solutions of some medicinal substance in wine; as: vina medicata, medicated wines; vinum opii, wine of opium. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH BARNUM (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 5 Letters (barnu) - Words That Begins with barnu:
Rhyming Words According to First 4 Letters (barn) - Words That Begins with barn:
| barn | noun (n.) A covered building used chiefly for storing grain, hay, and other productions of a farm. In the United States a part of the barn is often used for stables. |
| noun (n.) A child. [Obs.] See Bairn. | |
| verb (v. t.) To lay up in a barn. |
| barnabite | noun (n.) A member of a religious order, named from St. Barnabas. |
| barnacle | noun (n.) Any cirriped crustacean adhering to rocks, floating timber, ships, etc., esp. (a) the sessile species (genus Balanus and allies), and (b) the stalked or goose barnacles (genus Lepas and allies). See Cirripedia, and Goose barnacle. |
| noun (n.) A bernicle goose. | |
| noun (n.) An instrument for pinching a horse's nose, and thus restraining him. | |
| (sing.) Spectacles; -- so called from their resemblance to the barnacles used by farriers. |
| barnyard | noun (n.) A yard belonging to a barn. |
| barnburner | noun (n.) A member of the radical section of the Democratic party in New York, about the middle of the 19th century, which was hostile to extension of slavery, public debts, corporate privileges, etc., and supported Van Buren against Cass for president in 1848; -- opposed to Hunker. |
| barnstormer | noun (n.) An itinerant theatrical player who plays in barns when a theatre is lacking; hence, an inferior actor, or one who plays in the country away from the larger cities. |
Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (bar) - Words That Begins with bar:
| bar | noun (n.) A piece of wood, metal, or other material, long in proportion to its breadth or thickness, used as a lever and for various other purposes, but especially for a hindrance, obstruction, or fastening; as, the bars of a fence or gate; the bar of a door. |
| noun (n.) An indefinite quantity of some substance, so shaped as to be long in proportion to its breadth and thickness; as, a bar of gold or of lead; a bar of soap. | |
| noun (n.) Anything which obstructs, hinders, or prevents; an obstruction; a barrier. | |
| noun (n.) A bank of sand, gravel, or other matter, esp. at the mouth of a river or harbor, obstructing navigation. | |
| noun (n.) Any railing that divides a room, or office, or hall of assembly, in order to reserve a space for those having special privileges; as, the bar of the House of Commons. | |
| noun (n.) The railing that incloses the place which counsel occupy in courts of justice. Hence, the phrase at the bar of the court signifies in open court. | |
| noun (n.) The place in court where prisoners are stationed for arraignment, trial, or sentence. | |
| noun (n.) The whole body of lawyers licensed in a court or district; the legal profession. | |
| noun (n.) A special plea constituting a sufficient answer to plaintiff's action. | |
| noun (n.) Any tribunal; as, the bar of public opinion; the bar of God. | |
| noun (n.) A barrier or counter, over which liquors and food are passed to customers; hence, the portion of the room behind the counter where liquors for sale are kept. | |
| noun (n.) An ordinary, like a fess but narrower, occupying only one fifth part of the field. | |
| noun (n.) A broad shaft, or band, or stripe; as, a bar of light; a bar of color. | |
| noun (n.) A vertical line across the staff. Bars divide the staff into spaces which represent measures, and are themselves called measures. | |
| noun (n.) The space between the tusks and grinders in the upper jaw of a horse, in which the bit is placed. | |
| noun (n.) The part of the crust of a horse's hoof which is bent inwards towards the frog at the heel on each side, and extends into the center of the sole. | |
| noun (n.) A drilling or tamping rod. | |
| noun (n.) A vein or dike crossing a lode. | |
| noun (n.) A gatehouse of a castle or fortified town. | |
| noun (n.) A slender strip of wood which divides and supports the glass of a window; a sash bar. | |
| noun (n.) To fasten with a bar; as, to bar a door or gate. | |
| noun (n.) To restrict or confine, as if by a bar; to hinder; to obstruct; to prevent; to prohibit; as, to bar the entrance of evil; distance bars our intercourse; the statute bars my right; the right is barred by time; a release bars the plaintiff's recovery; -- sometimes with up. | |
| noun (n.) To except; to exclude by exception. | |
| noun (n.) To cross with one or more stripes or lines. |
| barring | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bar |
| barb | noun (n.) Beard, or that which resembles it, or grows in the place of it. |
| noun (n.) A muffler, worn by nuns and mourners. | |
| noun (n.) Paps, or little projections, of the mucous membrane, which mark the opening of the submaxillary glands under the tongue in horses and cattle. The name is mostly applied when the barbs are inflamed and swollen. | |
| noun (n.) The point that stands backward in an arrow, fishhook, etc., to prevent it from being easily extracted. Hence: Anything which stands out with a sharp point obliquely or crosswise to something else. | |
| noun (n.) A bit for a horse. | |
| noun (n.) One of the side branches of a feather, which collectively constitute the vane. See Feather. | |
| noun (n.) A southern name for the kingfishes of the eastern and southeastern coasts of the United States; -- also improperly called whiting. | |
| noun (n.) A hair or bristle ending in a double hook. | |
| noun (n.) The Barbary horse, a superior breed introduced from Barbary into Spain by the Moors. | |
| noun (n.) A blackish or dun variety of the pigeon, originally brought from Barbary. | |
| noun (n.) Armor for a horse. Same as 2d Bard, n., 1. | |
| verb (v. t.) To shave or dress the beard of. | |
| verb (v. t.) To clip; to mow. | |
| verb (v. t.) To furnish with barbs, or with that which will hold or hurt like barbs, as an arrow, fishhook, spear, etc. |
| barbing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Barb |
| barbacan | noun (n.) See Barbican. |
| noun (n.) A tower or advanced work defending the entrance to a castle or city, as at a gate or bridge. It was often large and strong, having a ditch and drawbridge of its own. | |
| noun (n.) An opening in the wall of a fortress, through which missiles were discharged upon an enemy. |
| barbacanage | noun (n.) See Barbicanage. |
| noun (n.) Money paid for the support of a barbican. |
| barbadian | noun (n.) A native of Barbados. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Barbados. |
| barbados | noun (n.) Alt. of Barbadoes |
| barbadoes | noun (n.) A West Indian island, giving its name to a disease, to a cherry, etc. |
| barbara | noun (n.) The first word in certain mnemonic lines which represent the various forms of the syllogism. It indicates a syllogism whose three propositions are universal affirmatives. |
| barbaresque | adjective (a.) Barbaric in form or style; as, barbaresque architecture. |
| barbarian | noun (n.) A foreigner. |
| noun (n.) A man in a rule, savage, or uncivilized state. | |
| noun (n.) A person destitute of culture. | |
| noun (n.) A cruel, savage, brutal man; one destitute of pity or humanity. | |
| adjective (a.) Of, or pertaining to, or resembling, barbarians; rude; uncivilized; barbarous; as, barbarian governments or nations. |
| barbaic | adjective (a.) Of, or from, barbarian nations; foreign; -- often with reference to barbarous nations of east. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to, or resembling, an uncivilized person or people; barbarous; barbarian; destitute of refinement. |
| barbarism | noun (n.) An uncivilized state or condition; rudeness of manners; ignorance of arts, learning, and literature; barbarousness. |
| noun (n.) A barbarous, cruel, or brutal action; an outrage. | |
| noun (n.) An offense against purity of style or language; any form of speech contrary to the pure idioms of a particular language. See Solecism. |
| barbarity | noun (n.) The state or manner of a barbarian; lack of civilization. |
| noun (n.) Cruelty; ferociousness; inhumanity. | |
| noun (n.) A barbarous or cruel act. | |
| noun (n.) Barbarism; impurity of speech. |
| barbarizing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Barbarize |
| barbarous | adjective (a.) Being in the state of a barbarian; uncivilized; rude; peopled with barbarians; as, a barbarous people; a barbarous country. |
| adjective (a.) Foreign; adapted to a barbaric taste. | |
| adjective (a.) Cruel; ferocious; inhuman; merciless. | |
| adjective (a.) Contrary to the pure idioms of a language. |
| barbarousness | noun (n.) The quality or state of being barbarous; barbarity; barbarism. |
| barbary | noun (n.) The countries on the north coast of Africa from Egypt to the Atlantic. Hence: A Barbary horse; a barb. [Obs.] Also, a kind of pigeon. |
| barbastel | noun (n.) A European bat (Barbastellus communis), with hairy lips. |
| barbate | adjective (a.) Bearded; beset with long and weak hairs. |
| barbated | adjective (a.) Having barbed points. |
| barbecue | noun (n.) A hog, ox, or other large animal roasted or broiled whole for a feast. |
| noun (n.) A social entertainment, where many people assemble, usually in the open air, at which one or more large animals are roasted or broiled whole. | |
| noun (n.) A floor, on which coffee beans are sun-dried. | |
| verb (v. t.) To dry or cure by exposure on a frame or gridiron. | |
| verb (v. t.) To roast or broil whole, as an ox or hog. |
| barbecuing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Barbecue |
| barbed | adjective (a.) Accoutered with defensive armor; -- said of a horse. See Barded ( which is the proper form.) |
| adjective (a.) Furnished with a barb or barbs; as, a barbed arrow; barbed wire. | |
| (imp. & p. p.) of Barb |
| barbel | noun (n.) A slender tactile organ on the lips of certain fished. |
| noun (n.) A large fresh-water fish ( Barbus vulgaris) found in many European rivers. Its upper jaw is furnished with four barbels. | |
| noun (n.) Barbs or paps under the tongued of horses and cattle. See 1st Barb, 3. |
| barbellate | adjective (a.) Having short, stiff hairs, often barbed at the point. |
| barbellulate | adjective (a.) Barbellate with diminutive hairs or barbs. |
| barber | noun (n.) One whose occupation it is to shave or trim the beard, and to cut and dress the hair of his patrons. |
| noun (n.) A storm accompanied by driving ice spicules formed from sea water, esp. one occurring on the Gulf of St. Lawrence; -- so named from the cutting ice spicules. | |
| verb (v. t.) To shave and dress the beard or hair of. |
| barbering | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Barber |
| barbermonger | noun (n.) A fop. |
| barberry | noun (n.) A shrub of the genus Berberis, common along roadsides and in neglected fields. B. vulgaris is the species best known; its oblong red berries are made into a preserve or sauce, and have been deemed efficacious in fluxes and fevers. The bark dyes a fine yellow, esp. the bark of the root. |
| barbet | noun (n.) A variety of small dog, having long curly hair. |
| noun (n.) A bird of the family Bucconidae, allied to the Cuckoos, having a large, conical beak swollen at the base, and bearded with five bunches of stiff bristles; the puff bird. It inhabits tropical America and Africa. | |
| noun (n.) A larva that feeds on aphides. |
| barbette | noun (n.) A mound of earth or a platform in a fortification, on which guns are mounted to fire over the parapet. |
| barbican | noun (n.) Alt. of Barbacan |
| barbicanage | noun (n.) Alt. of Barbacanage |
| barbicel | noun (n.) One of the small hooklike processes on the barbules of feathers. |
| barbiers | noun (n.) A variety of paralysis, peculiar to India and the Malabar coast; -- considered by many to be the same as beriberi in chronic form. |
| barbigerous | adjective (a.) Having a beard; bearded; hairy. |
| barbiton | noun (n.) An ancient Greek instrument resembling a lyre. |
| barble | noun (n.) See Barbel. |
| barbotine | noun (n.) A paste of clay used in decorating coarse pottery in relief. |
| barbre | adjective (a.) Barbarian. |
| barbule | noun (n.) A very minute barb or beard. |
| noun (n.) One of the processes along the edges of the barbs of a feather, by which adjacent barbs interlock. See Feather. |
| barcarolle | noun (n.) A popular song or melody sung by Venetian gondoliers. |
| noun (n.) A piece of music composed in imitation of such a song. |
| barcon | noun (n.) A vessel for freight; -- used in Mediterranean. |
| bard | noun (n.) A professional poet and singer, as among the ancient Celts, whose occupation was to compose and sing verses in honor of the heroic achievements of princes and brave men. |
| noun (n.) Hence: A poet; as, the bard of Avon. | |
| noun (n.) Alt. of Barde | |
| noun (n.) The exterior covering of the trunk and branches of a tree; the rind. | |
| noun (n.) Specifically, Peruvian bark. | |
| verb (v. t.) To cover (meat or game) with a thin slice of fat bacon. |
| barde | noun (n.) A piece of defensive (or, sometimes, ornamental) armor for a horse's neck, breast, and flanks; a barb. [Often in the pl.] |
| (pl.) Defensive armor formerly worn by a man at arms. | |
| (pl.) A thin slice of fat bacon used to cover any meat or game. |
| barded | adjective (p.a.) Accoutered with defensive armor; -- said of a horse. |
| adjective (p.a.) Wearing rich caparisons. |
| bardic | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to bards, or their poetry. |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH BARNUM:
English Words which starts with 'ba' and ends with 'um':
| bacterium | noun (n.) A microscopic vegetable organism, belonging to the class Algae, usually in the form of a jointed rodlike filament, and found in putrefying organic infusions. Bacteria are destitute of chlorophyll, and are the smallest of microscopic organisms. They are very widely diffused in nature, and multiply with marvelous rapidity, both by fission and by spores. Certain species are active agents in fermentation, while others appear to be the cause of certain infectious diseases. See Bacillus. |
| ballium | noun (n.) See Bailey. |
| barium | noun (n.) One of the elements, belonging to the alkaline earth group; a metal having a silver-white color, and melting at a very high temperature. It is difficult to obtain the pure metal, from the facility with which it becomes oxidized in the air. Atomic weight, 137. Symbol, Ba. Its oxide called baryta. |
| barytum | noun (n.) The metal barium. See Barium. |
| basidium | noun (n.) A special oblong or pyriform cell, with slender branches, which bears the spores in that division of fungi called Basidiomycetes, of which the common mushroom is an example. |
| basigynium | noun (n.) The pedicel on which the ovary of certain flowers, as the passion flower, is seated; a carpophore or thecaphore. |
| basipterygium | noun (n.) A bar of cartilage at the base of the embryonic fins of some fishes. It develops into the metapterygium. |
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