bombolo
English
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editCompare Italian bombola (“a pitcher”).
Noun
editbombolo (plural bombolos or bomboloes)
- (obsolete) A thin spheroidal glass retort or flask, used in the sublimation of camphor.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “bombolo”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Italian
editNoun
editbombolo m (plural bomboli)