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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Bolus \Bo"lus\, n.; pl. {Boluses}. [L. bolus bit, morsel; cf. G.
     ? lump of earth. See {Bole}, n., clay.]
     A rounded mass of anything, esp. a large pill.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  bolus
       n 1: a small round soft mass (as of chewed food)
       2: a large pill; used especially in veterinary medicine

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  50 Moby Thesaurus words for "bolus":
     ball, balloon, bite, bladder, blob, boll, bubble, bulb, bulbil,
     bulblet, capsule, champ, chaw, chew, chomp, cud, ellipsoid, geoid,
     globe, globelet, globoid, globule, glomerulus, gnash, gob, gobbet,
     knob, knot, lozenge, morsel, mouthful, munch, nibble, nip,
     oblate spheroid, orb, orbit, orblet, pellet, pill,
     prolate spheroid, quid, rondure, snap, sphere, spheroid, spherule,
     swallow, tablet, troche
  
  

















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