BERNARD

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• BERNARD (noun)
  The noun BERNARD has 1 sense:

1. French physiologist noted for research on secretions of the alimentary canal and the glycogenic function of the liver (1813-1878)

  Familiarity information: BERNARD used as a noun is very rare.

• BERNARD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

French physiologist noted for research on secretions of the alimentary canal and the glycogenic function of the liver (1813-1878)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Bernard; Claude Bernard

Instance hypernyms:

physiologist (a biologist specializing in physiology)

 Context examples 

“There is the Saracen's head of Sir Bernard Brocas,” quoth he.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"I'm goin' to tell Bernard all about it," she announced, when she was leaving.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

His father, Elmo, a huge St. Bernard, had been the Judge’s inseparable companion, and Buck bid fair to follow in the way of his father.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

But the beauty and regularity of the new town of Edinburgh, its romantic castle and its environs, the most delightful in the world, Arthur’s Seat, St. Bernard’s Well, and the Pentland Hills, compensated him for the change and filled him with cheerfulness and admiration.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

They had been floating about all the morning, from gloomy St. Gingolf to sunny Montreux, with the Alps of Savoy on one side, Mont St. Bernard and the Dent du Midi on the other, pretty Vevay in the valley, and Lausanne upon the hill beyond, a cloudless blue sky overhead, and the bluer lake below, dotted with the picturesque boats that look like white-winged gulls.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

He had scurried around and nosed out Martin's family history, and procured a photograph of Higginbotham's Cash Store with Bernard Higginbotham himself standing out in front.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

From his St. Bernard father he had inherited size and weight, but it was his shepherd mother who had given shape to that size and weight.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

What would the gentles Sir Nicholas Boarhunte, or Sir Bernard Brocas, of Roche Court, say if they saw such a thing—or, perhaps, even the King's own Majesty himself, who often has ridden past this way, and who loves his falcons as he loves his sons?

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

What injury had he done Bernard Higginbotham?

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

His cunning was wolf cunning, and wild cunning; his intelligence, shepherd intelligence and St. Bernard intelligence; and all this, plus an experience gained in the fiercest of schools, made him as formidable a creature as any that roamed the wild.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)