“bois”

The following 15 entries include the term bois.

bois d'arc

noun

coureur de bois

noun

: a French or métis trapper of North America and especially of Canada

bois blanc

noun

: american basswood

bois brûlé

noun, often capitalized both Bs

: an offspring of an American Indian and a person of European and especially French ancestry in Canada

bois cotelet

noun

bois de fer

noun

bois de rose

noun

: an important tropical American yellow timber derived chiefly from a tree (Aniba panurensis) of French Guiana

bois de rose oil

noun

: a colorless to yellow essential oil obtained from bois de rose and used in perfumery and as a source of linalool

bois de vache

noun

bois immortel

noun

: a tropical American shrub or tree (Erythrina umbrosa) used to shade young cacao plantations

bois inconnu

noun

bois puant

noun

Du Bois-Reymond's law

noun

: a statement in physiology: a nerve is stimulated only by a change in electric current and not by a steady flow of electricity


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