Category: B
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Blow-dry setting spray
A styling product that prepares the hair for a beautiful, full blow-dry.
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Bangs
The part of your hair that drapes over and across your forehead and eyes, framing the features of your face. Very sexy! A warmly served beverage, containing a mixture of ale and cider that has been infused with a variety of spices and a small amount of either gin or whisky.
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Biological potency of vitamins
Concentration of a vitamin preparation determined by using living organisms.
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Bakery shortening
Vunaspati meant for use as a shortening or leavening agent in the manufacture of bakery products for promoting the development of the desired cellular structure in the bakery product with an accompanying increase in its tenderness and volume.
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Bacterial count
The number of bacteria of all types present in one gram/one millilitre of food, determined by actual counting under magnification, after suitable plating and culturing.
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Baby food
General description covering foods designed for babies from birth till about 2 years of age.
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Bottom heat
Arrangement for propagating plants, generally striking of cuttings or germinating seeds, consisting nowadays of electric heating cables running through base of propagating medium.
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Bog garden
An area of garden in which soil moisture is maintained at a saturated level, by restricting drainage; most easily achieved at the margin of a pond or permanent stream. Used to grow plants from bog and marsh habitats.
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Bedding
A plant, usually low growing, suitable for a mass planting display of flowers or foliage. Most are annuals or short-lived perennials.
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Downstairs
Used to refer politely to the genital area (informal).