Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (2)
1.
a small round soft mass (as of chewed food);
2.
a large pill;
used especially in veterinary medicine;
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Bolus \Bo"lus\, n.; pl. Boluses. [L. bolus bit, morsel; cf. G.
? lump of earth. See Bole, n., clay.]
A rounded mass of anything, esp. a large pill.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
bolus
n 1: a small round soft mass (as of chewed food)
2: a large pill; used especially in veterinary medicine
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
50 Moby Thesaurus words for "bolus":
ball, balloon, bite, bladder, blob, boll, bubble, bulb, bulbil,
bulblet, capsule, champ, chaw, chew, chomp, cud, ellipsoid, geoid,
globe, globelet, globoid, globule, glomerulus, gnash, gob, gobbet,
knob, knot, lozenge, morsel, mouthful, munch, nibble, nip,
oblate spheroid, orb, orbit, orblet, pellet, pill,
prolate spheroid, quid, rondure, snap, sphere, spheroid, spherule,
swallow, tablet, troche