Word of the Day:
bibulous
What It Means
Very absorbent.
Given to or marked by the consumption of alcoholic drink.
Bibulous in Context
“Wearing gloves and chemical eye protection, cover the smear with a strip of bibulous paper cut slightly smaller than the slide.”
Did You Know?
From Latin bibulus from bibō (“drink”) + -ulus from Proto-Italic *pibō, from Proto-Indo-European *píph₃eti, from root *peh₃- (“drink”); whence also imbibe and beverage via Old French beivre.
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