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- English Word Bufo Definition A genus of Amphibia including various species of toads.
- English Word Bufonite Definition An old name for a fossil consisting of the petrified teeth and palatal bones of fishes belonging to the family of Pycnodonts (thick teeth), whose remains occur in the oolite and chalk formations; toadstone; -- so named from a notion that it was originally formed in the head of a toad.
- English Word Bug Definition A bugbear; anything which terrifies.
- English Word Bug Definition A general name applied to various insects belonging to the Hemiptera; as, the squash bug; the chinch bug, etc.
- English Word Bug Definition An insect of the genus Cimex, especially the bedbug (C. lectularius). See Bedbug.
- English Word Bug Definition One of various species of Coleoptera; as, the ladybug; potato bug, etc.; loosely, any beetle.
- English Word Bug Definition One of certain kinds of Crustacea; as, the sow bug; pill bug; bait bug; salve bug, etc.
- English Word Bugaboo Definition Alt. of Bugbear
- English Word Bugbane Definition A perennial white-flowered herb of the order Ranunculaceae and genus Cimiciguga; bugwort. There are several species.
- English Word Bugbear Definition Something frightful, as a specter; anything imaginary that causes needless fright; something used to excite needless fear; also, something really dangerous, used to frighten children, etc.
- English Word Bugbear Definition Same as Bugaboo.
- English Word Bugbear Definition Causing needless fright.
- English Word Bugbear Definition To alarm with idle phantoms.
- English Word Bugfish Definition The menhaden.
- English Word Bugger Definition One guilty of buggery or unnatural vice; a sodomite.
- English Word Bugger Definition A wretch; -- sometimes used humorously or in playful disparagement.
- English Word Buggery Definition Unnatural sexual intercourse; sodomy.
- English Word Buggies Definition of Buggy
- English Word Bugginess Definition The state of being infested with bugs.
- English Word Buggy Definition Infested or abounding with bugs.
- English Word Buggy Definition A light one horse two-wheeled vehicle.
- English Word Buggy Definition A light, four-wheeled vehicle, usually with one seat, and with or without a calash top.
- English Word Bugle Definition A sort of wild ox; a buffalo.
- English Word Bugle Definition A horn used by hunters.
- English Word Bugle Definition A copper instrument of the horn quality of tone, shorter and more conical that the trumpet, sometimes keyed; formerly much used in military bands, very rarely in the orchestra; now superseded by the cornet; -- called also the Kent bugle.
- English Word Bugle Definition An elongated glass bead, of various colors, though commonly black.
- English Word Bugle Definition Jet black.
- English Word Bugle Definition A plant of the genus Ajuga of the Mint family, a native of the Old World.
- English Word Bugle horn Definition A bugle.
- English Word Bugle horn Definition A drinking vessel made of horn.