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bombil

bombil noun: the lizardfish (Harpadon nehereus), the Bombay duck, or bummalo, native to the Arabian Sea.

Noun

bombil (plural bombils)

  1. The lizardfish (Harpadon nehereus), the Bombay duck, or bummalo, native to the Arabian Sea.
    • Those who plunge into the novel soon find themselves thrashing in a sea of words and sentences (“On Maganchand Road the thela-wallahs already had their fruit piled high, and the fishsellers were laying out bangda and bombil and paaplet on their slabs”) unencumbered by italics or explication.2007 January 7, Paul Gray, “Gangsta Raj”, in New York Times

Forms of bombil

pluralbombils

Origin of bombil

From Marathi बोंबील (bombīl).

Questions about bombil

What does bombil mean?
Bombil means the lizardfish (Harpadon nehereus), the Bombay duck, or bummalo, native to the Arabian Sea.
What part of speech is bombil?
Bombil is a noun.
What is the plural of bombil?
The plural of bombil is bombils.

Words near bombil in the dictionary

  1. bombiccite
  2. bombiculture
  3. bombie
  4. Bombieri-Friedlander-Iwaniec theorem
  5. bombies
  6. bombil
  7. bombilate
  8. bombilated
  9. bombilates
  10. bombilating
  11. bombilation

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