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Blue-Chip Stock
- noun - a common stock of a nationally known company whose value and dividends are reliable; typically have high price and low yield; "blue chips are usually safe investments"
Blue-Eyed Grass
- noun - plant with grasslike foliage and delicate blue flowers
Blue-Green Alga
- - any of a group of photosynthetic microorganisms possessing characteristics of both bacteria and plants. When classed as bacteria, they are assigned to the Cyanobacteria; when classed as plants, they are assigned to the Cyanophyta. They are now known to be prokaryotic, and are usually called cyanobacteria in technical contexts. See cyanobacterium.
Blue-Pencilling
- verb - cut or eliminate; "she edited the juiciest scenes"
Blueback Salmon
- noun - small salmon with red flesh; found in rivers and tributaries of the northern Pacific and valued as food; adults die after spawning
Bluegrass State
- noun - a state in east central United States; a border state during the American Civil War; famous for breeding race horses
Blueprint Paper
- noun - sensitized paper used to make blueprints
Bluestockingism
- - The character or manner of a bluestocking; female pedantry.
Bougie Decimale
- - A photometric standard used in France, having the value of one twentieth of the Violle platinum standard, or slightly less than a British standard candle. Called also decimal candle.
Boundlessnesses
- noun - the quality of being infinite; without bound or limit