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muga

muga noun: a type of wild silk found in Assam.

Noun (1)

muga (uncountable)

  1. A type of wild silk found in Assam.
    • Muga (from the Antheroea Assama moth) silk was produced in Assam; the muga silkworm fed on a tree known as champa.2005, Brenda M King, Silk and Empire, page 71
    • She was wearing a mauve blouse, a matching mauve bordered sador and a plain muga mekhela.2011, Arupa Patangia Kalita, translated by Deepika Phukan, The Story of Felanee

Noun (2) capitalized: MUGA

MUGA (plural MUGAs)

  1. (abbreviation, acronym) Acronym of multiple gated acquisition scan, a medical test used for assessing ventricular function of the heart.
  2. (abbreviation, acronym) Acronym of multiuse games area.

Forms of muga

alternative formmoga
alternative formmooga
alternative formmoonga
alternative formmugga
alternative formmunga
pluralMUGAs

Origin of muga

Borrowed from Assamese মুগা (muga).

Questions about muga

What does muga mean?
Muga means a type of wild silk found in Assam.
What part of speech is muga?
Muga is a noun.
What is the plural of muga?
The plural of muga is MUGAs.

Words near muga in the dictionary

  1. mug shotted
  2. mug up
  3. mug's game
  4. mug-hunting
  5. mug-shotted
  6. muga
  7. Mugabe
  8. Mugabeism
  9. mugaccino
  10. mugaccinos
  11. mugachino

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: muga (page history and authors); MUGA (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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