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WEST BENGAL
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Dictionary entry overview: What does West Bengal mean?
• WEST BENGAL (noun)
The noun WEST BENGAL has 1 sense:
1. a state in eastern India
Familiarity information: WEST BENGAL used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A state in eastern 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 ("West Bengal" 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
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)
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