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bougonia

bougonia is the alternative spelling of bugonia.

Meaning of bugonia

Noun

bugonia (uncountable)

  1. An ancient Mediterranean ritual based on the belief that bees were spontaneously generated from a cow’s carcass.

Origin of bougonia

From Ancient Greek βοῦς (boûs, “ox”) + γονή (gonḗ, “progeny”).

Questions about bougonia

What is bougonia the alternative spelling of?
Bougonia is the alternative spelling of bugonia.

Words near bougonia in the dictionary

  1. bougiest
  2. bouginage
  3. bouginages
  4. bouging
  5. bougna
  6. bougonia
  7. Bouguer's halo
  8. Bouguer's law
  9. Bouie
  10. bouillabaisse
  11. bouillabaisses

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bougonia (page history and authors); bugonia (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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