| a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison. |
| a gadget; dingus; thingumbob. |
berg2 (bɜːɡ) ![]() | |
| —n | |
| a South African word for mountain | |
Berg (bûrg), Paul. Born 1926.
American chemist. He shared a 1980 Nobel Prize for developing recombinant methods of inserting genes from simple organisms into the genetic material of similar organisms.