slovodefinícia
bombay
(encz)
Bombay,Bombaj n: [zem.]
bombay
(wn)
Bombay
n 1: a city in western India just off the coast of the Arabian
Sea; India's 2nd largest city (after Calcutta); has the
only natural deep-water harbor in western India [syn:
Mumbai, Bombay]
podobné slovodefinícia
bombay
(encz)
Bombay,Bombaj n: [zem.]
Bombay duck
(gcide)
Duck \Duck\, n. [OE. duke, doke. See Duck, v. t. ]
1. (Zool.) Any bird of the subfamily Anatin[ae], family
Anatid[ae].
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Note: The genera and species are numerous. They are divided
into river ducks and sea ducks. Among the former
are the common domestic duck (Anas boschas); the wood
duck (Aix sponsa); the beautiful mandarin duck of
China (Dendronessa galeriliculata); the Muscovy duck,
originally of South America (Cairina moschata). Among
the sea ducks are the eider, canvasback, scoter, etc.
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2. A sudden inclination of the bead or dropping of the
person, resembling the motion of a duck in water.
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Here be, without duck or nod,
Other trippings to be trod. --Milton.
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Bombay duck (Zool.), a fish. See Bummalo.

Buffel duck, Spirit duck. See Buffel duck.

Duck ant (Zool.), a species of white ant in Jamaica which
builds large nests in trees.

Duck barnacle. (Zool.) See Goose barnacle.

Duck hawk. (Zool.)
(a) In the United States: The peregrine falcon.
(b) In England: The marsh harrier or moor buzzard.

Duck mole (Zool.), a small aquatic mammal of Australia,
having webbed feet and a bill resembling that of a duck
(Ornithorhynchus anatinus). It belongs the subclass
Monotremata and is remarkable for laying eggs like a bird
or reptile; -- called also duckbill, platypus,
mallangong, mullingong, tambreet, and water mole.


To make ducks and drakes, to throw a flat stone obliquely,
so as to make it rebound repeatedly from the surface of
the water, raising a succession of jets; hence:

To play at ducks and drakes, with property, to throw it
away heedlessly or squander it foolishly and unprofitably.


Lame duck. See under Lame.
[1913 Webster]Bummalo \Bum"ma*lo\, n. [Native name.] (Zool.)
A small marine Asiatic fish (Saurus ophidon) used in India
as a relish; -- called also Bombay duck.
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bombay
(wn)
Bombay
n 1: a city in western India just off the coast of the Arabian
Sea; India's 2nd largest city (after Calcutta); has the
only natural deep-water harbor in western India [syn:
Mumbai, Bombay]
bombay ceiba
(wn)
Bombay ceiba
n 1: massive tropical tree with deep ridges on its massive trunk
and bearing large pods of seeds covered with silky floss;
source of the silky kapok fiber [syn: kapok, {ceiba
tree}, silk-cotton tree, white silk-cotton tree,
Bombay ceiba, God tree, Ceiba pentandra]
bombay hemp
(wn)
Bombay hemp
n 1: valuable fiber plant of East Indies now widespread in
cultivation [syn: kenaf, kanaf, deccan hemp, bimli,
bimli hemp, Indian hemp, Bombay hemp, {Hibiscus
cannabinus}]

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