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Definition of Bhindi
1. okra used in Indian cookery [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bhindi
Literary usage of Bhindi
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Transactions by National Association of Cotton Manufacturers, New England Cotton Manufacturers' Association, Institution of Public Health Engineers (Great Britain) (1913)
"bhindi," or lady's finger, is preferred by the insects infesting the cotton plant,
and as it comes into leaf before cotton, the insects collect in it; ..."
2. India's Women: The Magazine of the Church of England Zenana Missionary Society by Church of England Zenana Missionary Society (1883)
"... and that they should pray for His teaching, to which they assented, said that
they did so, and wished to know the truth. 'A day was spent at bhindi, ..."
3. Report Upon the Entomological Work Conducted in the District by Bombay (Presidency). Dept. of Land Records and Agriculture (1908)
"bhindi, the common vegetable is closely allied botanically to cotton and this
... It is known that the boll-worm subsists upon bhindi after th cotton crop ..."
4. Indian Insect Pests by Harold Maxwell-Lefroy (1906)
"As the pest comes from bhindi, the best thing is to grow no bhindi at all within
... The indiscriminate growing of bhindi where cotton is also grown is the ..."
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