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BIHAR
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Bihar mean?
• BIHAR (noun)
The noun BIHAR has 1 sense:
1. a state of northeastern India
Familiarity information: BIHAR used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A state of northeastern India
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
province; state (the territory occupied by one of the constituent administrative districts of a nation)
Holonyms ("Bihar" is a part of...):
Bharat; India; Republic of India (a republic in the Asian subcontinent in southern Asia; second most populous country in the world; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1947)
Context examples
In 2015, medical researchers in India held methylene cyclopropyl-glycine (MCPG) — a toxic phytochemical found in the lychee fruit — responsible for outbreaks of AES in India’s Bihar state.
(Lychee deaths linked to pesticides, not the fruit, SciDev.Net)
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