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boll 音標拼音: [b'ol] n. 圓莢 圓莢 boll n 1: the rounded seed- bearing capsule of a cotton or flax plantBoll \ Boll\, n. [ OE. bolle boll, bowl, AS. bolla. See { Bowl} a vessel.] 1. The pod or capsule of a plant, as of flax or cotton; a pericarp of a globular form. [ 1913 Webster] 2. A Scotch measure, formerly in use: for wheat and beans it contained four Winchester bushels; for oats, barley, and potatoes, six bushels. A boll of meal is 140 lbs. avoirdupois. Also, a measure for salt of two bushels. [ Sometimes spelled { bole}.] [ 1913 Webster]
Boll \ Boll\, v. i. [ imp. & p. p. { Bolled}.] To form a boll or seed vessel; to go to seed. [ 1913 Webster] The barley was in the ear, and the flax was bolled. -- Ex. ix. 31. [ 1913 Webster] 46 Moby Thesaurus words for " boll": ball, balloon, bladder, blob, bolus, bubble, bulb, bulbil, bulblet, burr, capsule, cod, ellipsoid, follicle, geoid, globe, globelet, globoid, globule, glomerulus, gob, gobbet, hull, husk, knob, knot, legume, legumen, oblate spheroid, orb, orbit, orblet, pease cod, pellet, pericarp, pod, prolate spheroid, rondure, seed pod, seed vessel, seedbox, seedcase, silique, sphere, spheroid, spherule
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