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bilestone

bilestone noun: a gallstone, or biliary calculus.

Noun

bilestone (plural bilestones)

  1. A gallstone, or biliary calculus.
    • the oil of turpentine dissolved its fragments of bilestone1794–1796, Erasmus Darwin, Zoonomia; or, The Laws of Organic Life, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], →OCLC

Forms of bilestone

pluralbilestones

Origin of bilestone

From bile + stone.

Questions about bilestone

What does bilestone mean?
Bilestone means a gallstone, or biliary calculus.
What part of speech is bilestone?
Bilestone is a noun.
What is the plural of bilestone?
The plural of bilestone is bilestones.

Words near bilestone in the dictionary

  1. bilerp
  2. bilerped
  3. bilerping
  4. bilerps
  5. biles
  6. bilestone
  7. bilestones
  8. bilete
  9. Biletskyi
  10. bilevel
  11. bilevels

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