BOMB

n. Buim. See Bompus.—Discharging. The cysts of certain of the Gregarinide; so called from their rupturing with apparent violence, (L, 182.] BOMBACEÆ (Lat.), n. f. pl. Bo?m-ba(ba’)’se%(ke?)-e(a-e%). Fr., bombacées. ÀA group of thalamifloral dicotyledonous plants of Lindley's malval alliance: considered a suborder of the Sterculiaceæ (or Malvaceæ [Bentham and Hooker]). [B, 19, 42.] See MALVACEÆ.