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B UBROMA, in botany, a genus of the Po- 
lyadelphia Dodecandria class and order. 
Nat. order Colinuniferae : Malvace®, Jussieu. 
Essential character : calyx tliree-leaved ; pe- 
tals five, arched, semibifid ; anthers on each 
filament three ; stigma simple ; capsule 
muricate, ending in a five-rayed star, 
punched with holes, five-celled, valveless, 
not opening. There is b'ut one species, viz. 
B. guazama, elm-leaved bubroraa or theo- 
broma, or bastard cedar. This tree rises to 
the height of forty or fifty feet in the West 
Indies, having a trunk as large as the size of 
a man’s body, covered with a dark brown 
bark, sending out many branches towai'ds 
the top, which extend wide every way ; 
leaves oblong, heart-shaped, alternate, near- 
ly four inches long, and two broad near the 
base, ending in acute points j the branches 
have a nap scattered over them ; they have 
no buds ; the flowers are in corymbs. In 
Jamaica it is known by the name of bastard 
cedar, and is peculiar to the low lands there, 
forming an agreeable shade for the cattle, 
and supplying tliem with food in di-y wea- 
ther, when all tlie herbage is burned up or 
exhausted. The wood is light, and so easily 
wrought that it is generally used by coach- 
makers in all the side pieces ; it is also cut 
into staves for casks. 
BUCCANEERS, those who dry and 
smoke flesh or fish, after the manner of the 
Americans. This name is particularly given 
to ihe French inhabitants of tlie island of 
St. Domingo, whose whole employment is 
to hunt bulls or wild boai s in order to sell 
the hides of the former and the flesh of the 
latter. 
The buccaneers are of two sorts: the 
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buccaneers ox-hunters, or rather hunters of 
bulls and cow's ; and the buccaneers boar-/ 
hunters, who are simply called hunters; 
though it seems that such a name be less 
proper to tliem than to tlie former; since 
the latter smoke and dry the flesli of wild 
boars, which is properly called buccaneer- 
ing, whereas the former prepare only the 
hides, which is done without buccaneering. 
Buccaneering is a term taken from Buc- 
can, tlie place where they smoke their flesh 
or fish, after the manner of the savages, on 
a grate or hurdle, madp of Brasil wmod, 
placed in the smoke a considerable distance 
from the fire ; this place is a hut of about 
twenty-five or thirty feet in circumference, 
all surrounded and cqvered with palmetto 
leaves. 
BUCCINATOR, in anatomy, a muscle 
on each side of the face, common to the 
lips and cheeks. See Asiatomy. 
BUCCINUIM, in natural history, a ge- 
nus of the Vermes Testacea. Animal a li- 
max ; shell univalve, spiral, gibbous ; apper- 
ture ovate, terminating in a short canal 
leaning to tlie right, with a retuse beak or 
projection ; pillar-lip expanded. There are 
between two and three hundred species, se- 
parated into eight divisions ; viz. A. inflated, 
rounded, thin, subdiaphonous, and brittle. 
B. with a short exserted beak ; lip unarmed 
outwardly. C. lip prickly outwardly on the 
hind part ; in other respects resembling di- 
vision B. D. pillar-lip dilated and thicken- 
ed. E. pillar-lip appearing as if worn flat. 
F. smooth, and not among the former divi- 
sions. O. angular, and not included among 
the former divisions. H. tapering, subu- 
late, smooth. 
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