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Birthroots
- noun - trillium of eastern North America having malodorous pink to purple flowers and an astringent root used in folk medicine especially to ease childbirth
Bitterroot
- noun - showy succulent ground-hugging plant of Rocky Mountains regions having deep to pale pink flowers and fleshy farinaceous roots; the Montana state flower
Bitterwood
- noun - handsome South American shrub or small tree having bright scarlet flowers and yielding a valuable fine-grained yellowish wood; yields the bitter drug quassia from its wood and bark
- medium to large tree of tropical North and South America having odd-pinnate leaves and long panicles of small pale yellow flowers followed by scarlet fruits
- West Indian tree yielding the drug Jamaica quassia
Bitterwort
- - The yellow gentian (Gentiana lutea), which has a very bitter taste.
Bloodroots
- noun - perennial woodland native of North America having a red root and red sap and bearing a solitary lobed leaf and white flower in early spring and having acrid emetic properties; rootstock used as a stimulant and expectorant
Boardrooms
- noun - a room where a committee meets (such as the board of directors of a company)
Bombardons
- noun - a large shawm; the bass member of the shawm family
- a tuba that coils over the shoulder of the musician
Bombproofs
- noun - a chamber (often underground) reinforced against bombing and provided with food and living facilities; used during air raids
- make safe against bombings
Bothersome
- adjective - causing irritation or annoyance; "tapping an annoying rhythm on his glass with his fork"; "aircraft noise is particularly bothersome near the airport"; "found it galling to have to ask permission"; "an irritating delay"; "nettlesome paperwork"; "a pesky mosquito"; "swarms of pestering gnats"; "a plaguey newfangled safety catch"; "a teasing and persistent thought annoyed him"; "a vexatious child"; "it is vexing to have to admit you are wrong"