When you're chewing something you're eating, it gets mushed into a mass called a bolus, which you then swallow.
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Bolus
//ˈbəʊləs//
Synonyms for "bolus" (50 found)
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Closest matches (10)
Strong matches (15)
Related words (25)
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Translations
11 translations across 8 languages.
Finnish
1 entries- pallero noun (round mass of food)
French
2 entries- bol noun (round mass of food)
- bol alimentaire noun (round mass of food)
Hungarian
1 entries- falat noun (round mass of food)
Italian
1 entries- bolo noun (round mass of food)
Northern Kurdish
1 entries- loq noun (round mass of food)
Polish
1 entries- kęs noun (round mass of food)
Portuguese
2 entries- bolo noun (round mass of food)
- bólus noun (large dose of a drug)
Spanish
2 entries- bolo noun (large dose of a drug)
- bolo alimenticio noun (round mass of food)
Sample sentences
2 total sentences available.
I gave him a bolus, twice the size of a gooseberry.
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