bombil
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]bombil (plural bombils)
- The lizardfish (Harpadon nehereus), the Bombay duck, or bummalo, native to the Arabian Sea.
- 2007 January 7, Paul Gray, “Gangsta Raj”, in New York Times[1]:
- Those who plunge into the novel soon find themselves thrashing in a sea of words and sentences (“On Maganchand Road the thela-wallahs already had their fruit piled high, and the fishsellers were laying out bangda and bombil and paaplet on their slabs”) unencumbered by italics or explication.
Cebuano
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From New Latin Bougainvillea, after Louis Antoine de Bougainville French admiral + -a.
Pronunciation
[edit]- Hyphenation: bom‧bil
Noun
[edit]bombil
- any member of the genus Bougainvillea.