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n. - A loose fitting jacket; East Indian tree that puts out aerial shoots that grow down into the soil forming additional trunks.

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Usage examples (21)
  • Chhattishgarh - While adivasis kill adivasis , criminal corporations and the bania merchant class thinks they can laugh all the way to the bank..
  • Of this I have long been certain: Rabb, our boss in this life as in the next, is a mean-spirited accountant: a third-rate bania, who taketh away with one hand what he...
  • The Maoists today represent the last stand of the adivasi masses , their inspiring resistance against the loot by criminal corporations and bania cartels will truly go...
  • 'Twas not like lending money to the close-fisted bania – so – well!
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