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kadamb

kadamb is the alternative form of kadam.

Meaning of kadam

Noun (1)

kadam (plural kadams)

  1. (India) A tropical evergreen tree, Neolamarckia cadamba (syn. Anthocephalus indicus, Nauclea cadamba), native to South and Southeast Asia.
    • Kinaram made the elephant sit under a large kadam tree.2011, Arupa Patangia Kalita, translated by Deepika Phukan, The Story of Felanee, translation of original in Assamese
    Synonyms:
    burflower-tree, common bur-flower tree, laran, Leichhardt pine

Noun (2)

kadam (plural kadams)

  1. (South-Asia, historical) A unit of distance, equal to 10 miles.
    • Accordingly Mangamal had all the roads throughout the kingdom formed into avenues; and at the distance of every kadam (10 English miles) she had a choultry built1837, The Foreign Quarterly Review, volume 19, page 226

Forms of kadamb

pluralkadambs

Questions about kadamb

What is kadamb the alternative form of?
Kadamb is the alternative form of kadam.

Words near kadamb in the dictionary

  1. kadaitja men
  2. Kadakia
  3. Kadakias
  4. kadala
  5. kadam
  6. kadamb
  7. kadamba
  8. Kadambari
  9. kadambas
  10. kadambs
  11. kadams

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