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The following 15 entries include the term Bois.
bois d'arc
nouncoureur de bois
noun: a French or métis trapper of North America and especially of Canada
bois blanc
noun: american basswood
: an offspring of an American Indian and a person of European and especially French ancestry in Canada
bois cotelet
nounbois de fer
nounbois 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
nounbois immortel
noun: a tropical American shrub or tree (Erythrina umbrosa) used to shade young cacao plantations
bois inconnu
nounbois puant
nounDu 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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