Bruxelles
— Noun
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~ the capital and largest city of Belgium; seat of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization
bruxism
— Noun
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~ involuntarily or unconsciously clenching or grinding the teeth, typically during sleep
Brya
— Noun
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~ genus of prickly shrubs and small trees of the Caribbean region; source of a durable hardwood
Bryaceae
— Noun
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~ a family of acrocarpous mosses
Bryales
— Noun
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~ category used in some classification systems for mosses having the spore case separated from the capsule wall by a hollow intercellular space
Bryan
— Noun
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~ a town of east central Texas
Bryan
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~ United States lawyer and politician who advocated free silver and prosecuted John Scopes (1925) for teaching evolution in a Tennessee high school (1860-1925)
bryanthus
— Noun
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~ procumbent Old World mat-forming evergreen shrub with racemes of pinkish-white flowers
Brynhild
— Noun
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~ a Valkyrie or a queen in the Nibelungenlied who loved the hero Siegfried; when he deceived her she had him killed and then committed suicide
Bryonia alba
— Noun
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~ white-flowered vine having thick roots and bearing small black berries; Europe to Iran
black bryony
— Noun
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~ common European twining vine with tuberous roots and cordate leaves and red berries
bryony
— Noun
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~ a vine of the genus Bryonia having large leaves and small flowers and yielding acrid juice with emetic and purgative properties
Bryophyta
— Noun
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~ a division of nonflowering plants characterized by rhizoids rather than true roots and having little or no organized vascular tissue and showing alternation of generations between gamete-bearing forms and spore-bearing forms; comprises true mosses (Bryopsida) and liverworts (Hepaticopsida) and hornworts (Anthoceropsida)
bryophyte
— Noun
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~ any of numerous plants of the division Bryophyta
Bryopsida
— Noun
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~ true mosses: bryophytes having leafy rather than thalloid gametophytes: comprises orders Andreaeales; Bryales; Dicranales; Eubryales; Sphagnales
Bryozoa
— Noun
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~ marine or freshwater animals that form colonies of zooids
bryozoan
— Noun
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~ sessile aquatic animal forming mossy colonies of small polyps each having a curved or circular ridge bearing tentacles; attach to stones or seaweed and reproduce by budding
Brythonic
— Noun
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~ a southern group of Celtic languages
Bryum
— Noun
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~ type genus of the Bryaceae: mosses distinguished by mostly erect and tufted gametophytes and symmetrical short-necked capsules
BS
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~ a bachelor's degree in science