BENGAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Bengal mean? 

• BENGAL (noun)
  The noun BENGAL has 1 sense:

1. a region whose eastern part is now Bangladesh and whose western part is included in India

  Familiarity information: BENGAL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BENGAL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A region whose eastern part is now Bangladesh and whose western part is included in India

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

geographic area; geographic region; geographical area; geographical region (a demarcated area of the Earth)

 Context examples 

When Dr. Roylott was in India he married my mother, Mrs. Stoner, the young widow of Major-General Stoner, of the Bengal Artillery.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Kartik Sunagar, an author of the study and assistant professor, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, tells that the venom of spectacled cobra found in West Bengal is strongly neurotoxic while that of the same species in Arunachal Pradesh state is extremely cytotoxic.

(‘India needs region-specific snakebite antivenoms’, SciDev.Net)