Carabao Definitions

Useful Words

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Anoa Mindorensis : چھوٹی بھینس , Bubaline : بھینس سے متعلق , Asiatic Buffalo : بھینسا , Buff : چمڑا , Buchloe Dactyloides : ایک قسم کی گھاس , Filipino : فلپائن کا باشندہ , Barong : چاقو , Abaca : بھنگ کی قسم , Agathis Alba : فلپائنی پودا , Aglaomorpha Meyeniana : فلپائنی جھاڑی , Beefalo : دوغلا جانور , Filipino : فلپائن کی زبان , Abb : اشتراکی جنگجو تنظیم , Atomic Number 11 : سوڈیم , Horseshoe Bat : بھوری چمگادڑ , Jambul : جامن , Abu Sayyaf : ابو سیاف گروپ , Horned Pondweed : تالابی گھاس , Headrace : پن چکی کی نہر , Dew : شبنم , Submersible Pump : پانی میں ڈوبے رہنے والا پمپ , Drown : ڈوب کر مرجانا , Atomic Number 19 : پوٹاشیم , Celsius Scale : سنٹی گریڈ , Centigrade : سینٹی گریڈ , Second World War : دوسری جنگ عظیم , Submerge : پانی کے اندر ڈالنا , Full-Strength : پانی کے بغیر , Afloat : بھرا ہوا , Water-Wash : پانی سے دھونا , Wash : بہا لےجانا

Useful Words Definitions

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Anoa Mindorensis: small buffalo of Mindoro in the Philippines.

Bubaline: relating to or resembling a buffalo.

Asiatic Buffalo: an Asian buffalo that is often domesticated for use as a draft animal.

Buff: a soft thick undyed leather from the skins of e.g. buffalo or oxen.

Buchloe Dactyloides: short grass growing on dry plains of central United States (where buffalo roam).

Filipino: a native or inhabitant of the Philippines.

Barong: a knife resembling a cleaver; used in the Philippines.

Abaca: a kind of hemp obtained from the abaca plant in the Philippines.

Agathis Alba: native to the Moluccas and Philippines; a source of dammar resin.

Aglaomorpha Meyeniana: epiphytic fern with large fronds; Taiwan and Philippines.

Beefalo: hardy breed of cattle resulting from crossing domestic cattle with the American buffalo; yields leaner beef than conventional breeds.

Filipino: official language of the Philippines; based on Tagalog; draws its lexicon from other Philippine languages.

Abb: an urban hit squad and guerrilla group of the Communist Party in the Philippines; formed in the 1980s.

Atomic Number 11: a silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group; occurs abundantly in natural compounds (especially in salt water); burns with a yellow flame and reacts violently in water; occurs in sea water and in the mineral halite (rock salt).

Horseshoe Bat: any of numerous bats of the family Hipposideridae of northwest Africa or Philippines or Australia having a horseshoe-shaped leaf on the nose.

Jambul: Jambul or Jamun is a purple coloured Indian summer fruit also found in Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, the Philippines, and Indonesia.

Abu Sayyaf: a small gang of militants claiming to seek a separate Islamic state for the Muslim minority in the Philippines; uses bombing and assassination and extortion and kidnapping.

Horned Pondweed: found in still or slow-moving fresh or brackish water; useful to oxygenate cool water ponds and aquaria.

Headrace: a waterway that feeds water to a mill or water wheel or turbine.

Dew: water that has condensed on a cool surface overnight from water vapor in the air.

Submersible Pump: an electrical water pump that is totally submerged into the water.

Drown: die from being submerged in water, getting water into the lungs, and asphyxiating.

Atomic Number 19: a light soft silver-white metallic element of the alkali metal group; oxidizes rapidly in air and reacts violently with water; is abundant in nature in combined forms occurring in sea water and in carnallite and kainite and sylvite.

Celsius Scale: a temperature scale that defines the freezing point of water as 0 degrees and the boiling point of water as 100 degrees.

Centigrade: of or relating to a temperature scale on which the freezing point of water is 0 degrees and the boiling point of water is 100 degrees.

Second World War: a war between the Allies (Australia, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Ethiopia, France, Greece, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, India, Iran, Iraq, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Philippines, Poland, South Africa, United Kingdom, United States, USSR, Yugoslavia) and the Axis (Albania, Bulgaria, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Rumania, Slovakia, Thailand) from 1939 to 1945.

Submerge: put under water.

Full-Strength: without water.

Afloat: covered with water.

Water-Wash: wash with water.

Wash: move by or as if by water.