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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (2)

1. a small round soft mass (as of chewed food);

2. a large pill; used especially in veterinary medicine;


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Bolus \Bo"lus\, n.; pl. Boluses. [L. bolus bit, morsel; cf. G. ? lump of earth. See Bole, n., clay.] A rounded mass of anything, esp. a large pill. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

bolus n 1: a small round soft mass (as of chewed food) 2: a large pill; used especially in veterinary medicine
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

50 Moby Thesaurus words for "bolus": ball, balloon, bite, bladder, blob, boll, bubble, bulb, bulbil, bulblet, capsule, champ, chaw, chew, chomp, cud, ellipsoid, geoid, globe, globelet, globoid, globule, glomerulus, gnash, gob, gobbet, knob, knot, lozenge, morsel, mouthful, munch, nibble, nip, oblate spheroid, orb, orbit, orblet, pellet, pill, prolate spheroid, quid, rondure, snap, sphere, spheroid, spherule, swallow, tablet, troche