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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 be·zoar /ˈbiˌzor, ˌzɔr/
 胃石,牛黃

From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Medical Dictionary 英漢醫學字典

 be·zoar /ˈbɪˌzo(ə)r, ˌzɔ(ə)r/ 名詞
 糞石,腸胃結石,牛黃

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Be·zoar n.  A calculous concretion found in the intestines of certain ruminant animals (as the wild goat, the gazelle, and the Peruvian llama) formerly regarded as an unfailing antidote for poison, and a certain remedy for eruptive, pestilential, or putrid diseases. Hence: Any antidote or panacea.
 Note: ☞ Two kinds were particularly esteemed, the Bezoar orientale of India, and the Bezoar occidentale of Peru.
 Bezoar antelope. See Antelope.
 Bezoar goat Zool., the wild goat (Capra ægagrus).
 Bezoar mineral, an old preparation of oxide of antimony.
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