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.