burpless

burpless
 adj.β€” Β«Researchers in Australia have received funding to develop more digestible feeds for cattleβ€”β€œburpless” grass, in industry parlanceβ€”that result in less methane being produced as they are broken down in cows’ stomach(s).Β» β€”β€œAussies cultivate ’burpless’ grass” by Peter Freed TerraPass (San Francisco, California) May 15, 2008. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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  • “Burpless” has also been used to market cucumbers supposedly engineered to not induce gas in the consumer.

  • “Burpless” always struck me as funny — as Luke mentions, I know it’s supposed to mean that the cukes don’t induce gas, but it always suggested to me that the cukes themselves were burp-free.

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