bengal : Idioms & Phrases

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

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

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• 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.

Webster 1913

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

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

Webster 1913

• noun southern short-haired tiger
  

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• . (Zoöl.). See Tiger.

Webster 1913

• noun a state in eastern India
  

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