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What does bilious mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word bilious? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. Of or pertaining to something containing or consisting of bile.
  2. Resembling bile, especially in color.
  3. Suffering from real or supposed liver disorder, especially excessive secretions of bile.
  4. Peevishly ill-humored, irritable or bad tempered; irascible.
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Any child presenting with bilious vomiting should be presumed to have a bowel obstruction.
After a few hours of postnatal life, bowel distension becomes remarkable because of swallowed air and causes bilious vomiting.
In any case, in its bilious doctrinal carping, the editorial was quite exemplary, a sinister, jargon-ridden spasm of Stalinesque nastiness.
All the big noses and bilious hues of the two worlds seemed to have made appointments there.
Ten years ago, Nick could be seen sporting a shocking ranged of jumpers that range from violent pink to bilious yellow.
Umbilical drainage containing bilious or fecal material should prompt a work-up.

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