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Birthworts
- noun - creeping plant having curving flowers thought to resemble fetuses; native to Europe; naturalized Great Britain and eastern North America
Biscutella
- noun - genus of Eurasian herbs and small shrubs: buckler mustard
Bisections
- noun - dividing into two equal parts
Bishoplike
- - Resembling a bishop; belonging to a bishop.
Bishoprics
- noun - the territorial jurisdiction of a bishop
Bishopries
- noun - the office and dignity of a bishop
Bisilicate
- - A salt of metasilicic acid; -- so called because the ratio of the oxygen of the silica to the oxygen of the base is as two to one. The bisilicates include many of the most common and important minerals.
Bismuthous
- - Of, or containing, bismuth, when this element has its lower valence.
Bissextile
- - Leap year; every fourth year, in which a day is added to the month of February on account of the excess of the tropical year (365 d. 5 h. 48 m. 46 s.) above 365 days. But one day added every four years is equivalent to six hours each year, which is 11 m. 14 s. more than the excess of the real year. Hence, it is necessary to suppress the bissextile day at the end of every century which is not divisible by 400, while it is retained at the end of those which are divisible by 400.