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Bolus vs Bolis - What's the difference?

bolus | bolis |

As a proper noun bolus

is a botanical plant name author abbreviation for botanist (harry bolus) (1834-1911).

As a noun bolis is

a meteor or brilliant shooting star, followed by a train of light or sparks; especially one which explodes.

bolus

English

Noun

(en-noun)
  • A round mass of something, especially of chewed food in the mouth or alimentary canal.
  • A single, large dose of a drug, especially one in that form.

    • Usage notes

    * (term) is the somewhat more common plural form of (bolus) in scholarly use.

    External links

    * (wikipedia "bolus") ----

    bolis

    English

    Noun

  • A meteor or brilliant shooting star, followed by a train of light or sparks; especially one which explodes.
  • * 1851 , British Association for the Advancement of Science, Report (volume 20, page 90)
    • A bolis appearing as large as an orange, with a train some yards in length, crossed Wrenbury, Cheshire, about 10 p.m. (p. 305). The observer was my brother, Mr. William Thomson, surgeon, Wrenbury, near Nantwich.
    (Webster 1913) ----