Words that start with B

Bright blue birds bite bruised bananas.

Bis forBray

Bray is the name given to the noise a donkey makes.
Scientific name: bertholletia excelsa
Brazil nuts are the seeds of a tree from South America. The Brazil nut tree is a very large tree, and the nuts only grow when the tree is in an undisturbed forest. The insects that pollinate the Brazil nut flowers are only found near a particular kind of orchid. The Brazil nuts themselves grow inside a large fruit the size of a coconut, with the nuts in shells like in the picture arranged like the segments of an orange.

Bis forBread

Bread is a kind of food that is baked in the oven. Bread is usually sold sliced, and you use the slices of bread to make sandwiches.

Bis forBreak

You break something when you damage it or split it into many pieces violently or with a lot of force. The woman in the picture is breaking an egg.
Breakfast is the first meal of the day. You can have all sorts of different things for breakfast. Many people have cereal with milk or toast with jam or honey. Some people prefer a cooked breakfast with bacon and eggs. Other people might like waffles or pancakes. And some people like a breakfast with almost everything, like in the picture.

Bis forBream

Scientific name: abramis brama
Bream are freshwater fish found in lakes and slow-moving rivers in Europe. They are caught for food.

Bis forBreast

Breast is another word for your chest, particularly when referring to meat from that part of a bird.

Bis forBreathe

You breathe when you draw air into your lungs through your nose or mouth, and then back out again. Breathing in is inhaling and breathing out is exhaling.

Bis forBred

Bred is the past tense of breed. It is usually used to talk about animals who have been bred to look or behave a certain way, as in "this horse was bred to run fast".

Bis forBreed

Breeding is the process of making offspring, or babies. The cat in the picture has bred, and has a litter of kittens.