Vocabulary : Belladonna to Belletristic

Belladonna : An herbaceous European plant (Atropa belladonna) with reddish bell-shaped flowers and shining black berries. The whole plant and its fruit are very poisonous, and the root and leaves are used as powerful medicinal agents. Its properties are largely due to the alkaloid atropine which it contains. Called also deadly nightshade. ;; A species of Amaryllis (A. belladonna); the belladonna lily.
Bellarmine : A stoneware jug of a pattern originated in the neighborhood of Cologne, Germany, in the 16th century. It has a bearded face or mask supposed to represent Cardinal Bellarmine, a leader in the Roman Catholic Counter Reformation, following the Reformation; -- called also graybeard, longbeard.
Bellbird : A South American bird of the genus Casmarhincos, and family Cotingidae, of several species; the campanero. ;; The Myzantha melanophrys of Australia.
Belle : A young lady of superior beauty and attractions; a handsome lady, or one who attracts notice in society; a fair lady.
Belled : of Bell ;; Hung with a bell or bells.

Belleek ware : A porcelainlike kind of decorative pottery with a high gloss, which is sometimes iridescent. A very fine kind is made at Belleek in Ireland.
Belle-lettrist : One versed in belles-lettres.
Bellerophon : A genus of fossil univalve shells, believed to belong to the Heteropoda, peculiar to the Paleozoic age.
Belles-lettres : Polite or elegant literature; the humanities; -- used somewhat vaguely for literary works in which imagination and taste are predominant.
Belletristic : Alt. of Belletristical

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