Found 2 hits - Term: sow bread, Database: *, Strategy: prefix
- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
sow \sow\, n. oe. sowe, suwe, as. sugu, akin to s=u, d. zog,
zeug, ohg. s=u, g. sau, icel. s=yr, dan. so, sw. sugga,
so, l. sus. gr. "y^s, sy^s, zend. hu boar; probably from the
root seen in skr. s=u to beget, to bear; the animal being
named in allusion to its fecundity. root294. cf. hyena,
soil to stain, son, swine.
1. zool. the female of swine, or of the hog kind.
1913 webster
2. zool. a sow bug.
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3. metal.
a a channel or runner which receives the rows of molds
in the pig bed.
b the bar of metal which remains in such a runner.
c a mass of solidified metal in a furnace hearth; a
salamander.
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4. mil. a kind of covered shed, formerly used by besiegers
in filling up and passing the ditch of a besieged place,
sapping and mining the wall, or the like. --craig.
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sow bread. bot. see cyclamen.
sow bug, or sowbug zool., any one of numerous species
of terrestrial isopoda belonging to oniscus,
porcellio, and allied genera of the family oniscidae.
they feed chiefly on decaying vegetable substances.
sow thistle as. sugepistel bot., a composite plant
sonchus oleraceus said to be eaten by swine and some
other animals.
1913 webster
see also:
hyena soil son swine sow bread cyclamen
sow bug sowbug isopoda oniscus porcellio
oniscidae sow thistle sonchus oleraceus
- [2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
cyclamen \cyc"lamen\ s?k"l?-m?n, n. nl., fr. gr.
kykla`minos, kyklami`s. bot.
a genus of plants of the primrose family, having depressed
rounded corms, and pretty nodding flowers with the petals so
reflexed as to point upwards, whence it is called rabbits'
ears. it is also called sow bread, because hogs are said
to eat the corms.
1913 webster
see also:
rabbits' ears sow bread
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