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Bourdon tube(medicine)
faux-bourdon(dictionary)
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oculinacea (medicine) and bourdon (iou)


oculinacea (medicine)


oculinacea
<zoology> A suborder of corals including many reef-building species, having round, starlike calicles.

Origin: NL, fr. NL. Oculina the name of a typical genus.

Source: Websters Dictionary


bourdon (iou)



bourdon noun. Also burdoun. ME.
[Old & mod. French = drone, from Proto-Romance, of imit. origin.]
= BURDEN noun 6 (with which early merged). Now rare or obsolete. ME.
A low-pitched stop in an organ or harmonium; the drone pipe of a bagpipe. M19.
The lowest-pitched in a peal of bells. E20.