A haircut carried out by placing a pudding basin over the head and cutting around the base; or, one that looks as if it were so carried out.

Alternative spelling of pudding basin

Research performed without regard to practical applications.

Alternative spelling of back to basics

Alternative spelling of back to basics

(uncountable) The condition of being basic. / (countable, chemistry) The degree to which a substance is basic: its pH level.

plural of basidium

(mathematics, physics) Informally, a set of points from which a dynamical system spontaneously moves to a particular attractor.

(mycology) An immature or aborted basidium; similar in shape but smaller in size.

(mycology) A mushroom which has basidia.