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BANGLADESH
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A Muslim republic in southern Asia bordered by India to the north and west and east and the Bay of Bengal to the south; formerly part of India and then part of Pakistan; it achieved independence in 1971. In local language, 'Bangladesh' means Land of the Bengalis ('Bangla' means Bengali, 'desh' means land or country)
Synonyms:
Bangla Desh; Bangladesh; East Pakistan; People's Republic of Bangladesh
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
Asian country; Asian nation (any one of the nations occupying the Asian continent)
Meronyms (parts of "Bangladesh"):
capital of Bangladesh; Dacca; Dhaka (the capital and largest city of Bangladesh)
Chittagong (a port city and industrial center in southeastern Bangladesh on the Bay of Bengal)
Brahmaputra; Brahmaputra River (an Asian river; flows into the Bay of Bengal)
Ganges; Ganges River (an Asian river; rises in the Himalayas and flows east into the Bay of Bengal; a sacred river of the Hindus)
Meronyms (members of "Bangladesh"):
Bangladeshi (a native or inhabitant of Bangladesh)
Bengali ((Hinduism) a member of a people living in Bangladesh and West Bengal (mainly Hindus))
Domain member region:
Hindooism; Hinduism (the religion of most people in India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and Nepal)
madrasa; madrasah (Muslim schools in Bangladesh and Pakistan)
Holonyms ("Bangladesh" is a part of...):
Asia (the largest continent with 60% of the earth's population; it is joined to Europe on the west to form Eurasia; it is the site of some of the world's earliest civilizations)
Context examples:
That includes roughly 600 million people in Indonesia, Cambodia, Myanmar, Bangladesh, Laos and several other nations, mainly in Southeast Asia, the report said.
(Planet-Warming Gases Make Some Food Less Nutritious, Study Says, Steve Baragona/VOA)
He explained that the study though was based on earlier work of investigators at the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research in Dhaka, Bangladesh, who had previously shown that children naturally exposed to ETEC are more likely to get sick if they are blood group A.
(People with type A blood at most risk of severe diarrhoea, SciDev.Net)
The extended Himalayas, also known as the Hindu Kush Himalaya (HKH) area, includes several of the world’s highest mountains that are strung out over 3,600 kilometres across Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, India, Myanmar, Nepal and Pakistan.
(Bulk of Himalayan glaciers could vanish by 2100, SciDev.Net)
Besides drinking water, rice is another route to arsenic exposure in countries such as Bangladesh, China, India and Vietnam, where rice is a staple.
(Parboiling husked rice reduces arsenic content, SciDev.Net)
Lychees are cultivated, harvested and consumed in different parts of Bangladesh but lychee-associated outbreaks have been reported only in Dinajpur and Thakurgaon districts.
(Lychee deaths linked to pesticides, not the fruit, SciDev.Net)
The scientists, tested the efficiency of the modified parboiling process at 13 locations across Bangladesh and found that it removed 25 per cent of arsenic in whole grain rice across all sites.
(Parboiling husked rice reduces arsenic content, SciDev.Net)
Recurrent outbreaks of acute encephalitis syndrome (AES) among children in India and Bangladesh could be down to exposure to agrochemicals used in lychee orchards rather than consumption of the fruit of the Asian lychee tree (Litchi chinensis), according to recent research.
(Lychee deaths linked to pesticides, not the fruit, SciDev.Net)
This is especially a problem in Bangladesh, where it is estimated that groundwater pumped from shallow aquifers for irrigation adds one million kilograms of arsenic per year to arable soil.
(Parboiling husked rice reduces arsenic content, SciDev.Net)
Pesticides can be one of the contributing factors, says Mohammed Saiful Islam, scientist at the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh, and lead author of the study, which used a ‘mixed-methods’ approach to identify risk factors for AES and unsound practices around lychee cultivation in Dinajpur.
(Lychee deaths linked to pesticides, not the fruit, SciDev.Net)
