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Definition of bhang in English English dictionary
- Cannabis, especially as used in the Indian subcontinent
Almost from the outset of her arrival in the town, soft-muted music, the strange, heart-rending, mournful music of the East - suggestive of apes, and pearls, and bhang, and the colour blue - was to be heard, surging from the Nook in monotonous improvisation.
- An astringent and narcotic drug made from the dried leaves and seed capsules of wild hemp (Cannabis Indica), and chewed or smoked in the East as a means of intoxication
- a preparation of the leaves and flowers of the hemp plant; much used in India
- cannabis
- {i} Indian hemp; hashish
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[ 'ba[ng], 'bä[ng] ] (noun.) 1563. From Hindi भांग and Urdu بھانگ Sanskrit भङ्ग.Resimler
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