Bum: 2 definitions

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Bum means something in Hindi, biology. If you want to know the exact meaning, history, etymology or English translation of this term then check out the descriptions on this page. Add your comment or reference to a book if you want to contribute to this summary article.

Ambiguity: Although Bum has separate glossary definitions below, it also represents an alternative spelling of the word Bama.

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Biology (plants and animals)

Source: Google Books: CRC World Dictionary (Regional names)

Bum in Cameroon is the name of a plant defined with Ceiba pentandra in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Xylon pentandrum Kuntze (among others).

Example references for further research on medicinal uses or toxicity (see latin names for full list):

· De Fructibus et Seminibus Plantarum (1791)
· A General History of the Dichlamydeous Plants (1831)
· The Tiv Tribe. (1933)
· The Religion. (1971)
· Bulletin of Miscellaneous Information Kew (1935)
· Taxon (1979)

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This sections includes definitions from the five kingdoms of living things: Animals, Plants, Fungi, Protists and Monera. It will include both the official binomial nomenclature (scientific names usually in Latin) as well as regional spellings and variants.

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Hindi dictionary

Source: DDSA: A practical Hindi-English dictionary

Bum in Hindi refers in English to:—(nm) a bomb, shell; shreds of paper with relevant hints/notes (one of the unfair means used by students for copying in examinations); an interjection ([bamabama] or [bamabama bhola]) meant to propitiate Lord Shiv; the projecting bamboos in a tonga or ekka between which a horse is harnessed; ~[kamda] a bomb-explosion; a case of bombing; ~[gola] a bombshell; ~[baja] a bomber; ~[baji] bombing, shelling; ~[bhola] ([natha]) Lord Shiv; ~[varsha] bombardment; ~[bama karana] to shout [bamabama] for propitiation of Lord Shiv; —[barasana] to bomb heavily..—bum (बम) is alternatively transliterated as Bama.

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