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bombils

bombils is the plural of bombil.

Meaning of bombil

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

Questions about bombils

What is bombils the plural of?
Bombils is the plural of bombil.

Words near bombils in the dictionary

  1. bombilating
  2. bombilation
  3. bombilations
  4. bombilla
  5. bombillas
  6. bombils
  7. bombinate
  8. bombinated
  9. bombinates
  10. bombinating
  11. bombination

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bombils (page history and authors); bombil (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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