(rail transport, US) A railroad freight car which is used to transport bulk materials in a hopper, the load being usually discharged through the bottom of the car.

A 13-amino acid peptide that exerts neuromodulatory functions in the central nervous system and endocrine/paracrine actions in the periphery

To construct using mud blocks or to seal a wall using mud or an artificial equivalent. / (of growing corn) To have the heads mature into corncobs. / To remove the kernels from a corncob. / To thresh.

(zoology) Any snail in the family Xanthonychidae.