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- noun Plural form of
peptonoid .
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Examples
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It is a shaped book -- it is supposed to have been badly scorched on reentry through the Earth's atmosphere -- which consistently plugs the aforesaid company's liquid peptonoids, and was acquired here, in the 1980s, because of its science fiction connexions.
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The best substitutes are rice or barley water, either plain or dextrinized, the malted foods, chicken or beef broths, liquid peptonoids or bovinine.
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Later, much difficulty will be met because these patients have absolutely no appetite, -- peptonized skimmed milk is always good, beef broths are often well borne, liquid beef peptonoids may be tried.
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Then he gave the patient two tablespoonfuls of peptonoids.
V. V.'s Eyes Henry Sydnor Harrison 1905
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