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Bengal

Bengal

1. A province in india, giving its name to various stuffs, animals, etc.

2. A thin stuff, made of silk and hair, originally brought from bengal.

3. Striped gingham, originally brought from Bengal; bengal stripes. Bengal light, a firework containing niter, sulphur, and antimony, and producing a sustained and vivid coloured light, used in making signals and in pyrotechnics; called also blue light. Bengal stripes, a kind of cotton cloth woven with coloured stripes. See bengal. Bengal tiger.

(Science: zoology) see tiger.


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... a subspecies differ morphologically from members of other subspecies within the same species, for example the Amur tiger differs in type from the Bengal tiger. However, if they encounter each other, members of the subspecies are sufficiently similar that they readily interbreed. Subspecies is ...

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My..............!!!! Royal Bengal Tiger!!!!! http://www.uclick.com/widgets/ew/070511/ew070511c.jpg

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