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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.
      1913 webster

   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.
          1913 webster

   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.
      1913 webster

   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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