bengal : Idioms & Phrases


bay of bengal

  • noun an arm of the Indian Ocean to the east of India
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bengal bean

  • noun the annual woody vine of Asia having long clusters of purplish flowers and densely hairy pods; cultivated in southern United States for green manure and grazing
    Benghal bean; cowage; Mucuna pruriens utilis; Florida bean; Stizolobium deeringiana; velvet bean; Mucuna deeringiana; Mucuna aterrima.
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bengal kino

  • noun dried juice of the dhak tree; used as an astringent
    butea kino; butea gum; gum butea.
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Bengal light

  • noun a steady bright blue light; formerly used as a signal but now a firework
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  • a firework containing niter, sulphur, and antimony, and producing a sustained and vivid colored light, used in making signals and in pyrotechnics; called also blue light.
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bengal rose

  • noun shrubby Chinese rose; ancestor of many cultivated garden roses
    China rose; Rosa chinensis.
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Bengal stripes

  • a kind of cotton cloth woven with colored stripes. See Bengal, 3.
Webster 1913

Bengal tiger

  • noun southern short-haired tiger
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  • . (Zoöl.). See Tiger.
Webster 1913

west bengal

  • noun a state in eastern India
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