Unornamented
71Bauhaus — /bow hows /, n. 1. a school of design established in Weimar in 1919 by Walter Gropius, moved to Dessau in 1926, and closed in 1933 as a result of Nazi hostility. adj. 2. of or pertaining to the concepts, ideas, or styles developed at the Bauhaus …
72bi — /buy/, adj., n., pl. bis, bi s. Slang. bisexual. [by shortening] * * * ▪ Chinese art Wade Giles romanization pi in art, Chinese jade carved in the form of a flat disk with a hole in the centre. The earliest examples, which are… …
73BI — pl. BI s. built in. * * * ▪ Chinese art Wade Giles romanization pi in art, Chinese jade carved in the form of a flat disk with a hole in the centre. The earliest examples, which are unornamented, date from the Neolithic Period (c.… …
74Bi — Symbol, Chem. bismuth. * * * ▪ Chinese art Wade Giles romanization pi in art, Chinese jade carved in the form of a flat disk with a hole in the centre. The earliest examples, which are unornamented, date from the Neolithic Period (c.… …
75bivalve — bivalvular /buy val vyeuh leuhr/, adj. /buy valv /, n. 1. Also called lamellibranch. Zool. any mollusk, as the oyster, clam, scallop, or mussel, of the class Bivalvia, having two shells hinged together, a soft body, and lamellate gills. adj. 2.… …
76bookplate — /book playt /, n. a label bearing the owner s name and often a design, coat of arms, or the like, for pasting on the front end paper of a book. [1785 95; BOOK + PLATE1] * * * Label with a printed design pasted inside the front cover of a book to… …
77bryophyte — bryophytic /bruy euh fit ik/, adj. /bruy euh fuyt /, n. Bot. any of the Bryophyta, a phylum of nonvascular plants comprising the true mosses and liverworts. [1875 80; < NL Bryophyta name of the group; see BRYO , PHYTE] * * * Any of the green,… …
78curassow — /kyoor euh soh , kyoo ras oh/, n. any of several large, arboreal, gallinaceous birds of the family Cracidae, of South and Central America. [1675 85; after CURAÇAO] * * * Any of numerous tropical American bird species (family Cracidae); strictly… …
79lepidopteran — /lep i dop teuhr euhn/, adj. 1. lepidopterous. n. 2. a lepidopterous insect. [1850 55; LEPIDOPTER(A) + AN] * * * Any of the more than 100,000 species constituting the order Lepidoptera (Greek: scaly wing ): butterflies, moths, and skippers. The… …
80literature — /lit euhr euh cheuhr, choor , li treuh /, n. 1. writings in which expression and form, in connection with ideas of permanent and universal interest, are characteristic or essential features, as poetry, novels, history, biography, and essays. 2.… …
