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  • Baheemian
    See BAHAMIAN (pronunciation)
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  • Bahamian
    /bahéymian ; bahámian (Anglophile); bahíymian (Black)/ n. 1. a native of the Bahamas: 1731 The hungry Bahamians (Catesby II:i). 2.
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  • Bahama white-wood bark
    n. the wild cinnamon tree, Canella winterana: 1889 (Gardner 365). 1978 Small tree. . . cinnamon-like odour. . . known
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  • Bahama sparrow
    n., Obs. a bird, possibly the gray and yellow Bahama honeycreeper, Coereba flaveola: 1731 Bahama sparrow. . . about the
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  • Bahamas
    [see the usage note] n. the Bahama Islands (considered to lie outside the West Indies by most Bahamians): 1976 The
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  • Bahaman
    [not in W3] adj., n., Obs., Bahamian (largely replaced by the latter): 1895 Fish is to the Bahaman what meat
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  • Bahama money, Bahama currency
    n., Obs. a system of pounds and pence used in the 18th and 19th centuries, worth roughly half the value
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  • Bahama ham, Bahamian ham
    n. 1. [see quot.] the bonefish: 1888 The bonefish, nicknamed the Bahama ham on account of a supposed resemblance in
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  • Bahama coney
    [cf. OED cony rabbit, akin to Sp. conejo, now largely obs.; note 1555 quot.: "Connies whiche they caule Vtias"] n.,
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  • Bahama boa
    n. a constrictor snake, Elaplze sp.: 1972 The harmless Bahama boa ... sometimes reaches six or seven feet in length
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