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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In the West Indies, particularly in Trinidad, the slimy pulp which adheres to the seeds of the cacao, Theobroma Cacao.
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Examples
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a resemblance to spectacles; and there is a still smaller species called the "bava," which is found in Lake Valencia, and in many South American rivers.
Popular Adventure Tales Mayne Reid 1850
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Malagasy · Shina: Voakombom-bava ve ireo mpitoraka blaogy Tibetana?
Global Voices in English » China: Are Tibetan Bloggers Being Silenced? 2009
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Really let down by the winners, godzilla over mario bava? and its quite obvious through these results that horror is going towards shock/torture porn and itll be that way for awhile.
Congratulations, Rob Zombie! Arbogast 2008
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Amit · May 17th, 2007 at 5:24 pm the reference to bavli bava mesia should be bavli bava mesia chapter 5″
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It became a deeply religious thing, associated with heresy and used an an explanation for impovershment look it up at the end of bavli bava mesia.
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Handwoven baskets, ornamental wooden spoons, lengths of cloth (wrapped around me, head to foot), the admonition that I must not forget to write to them with news of my parents and bava Johnthis combination of gifts and counsel pointedly expressed the full meaning of xitsundzuxo as memento, reminder, and advice, 2 a simultaneously material and oral invocation of memory.
Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique 2005
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To give a small gift in recognition of a purchase madee. g., when a shopkeeper gives a customer an additional item beyond what s/he has paid for; to tip for service. bava.
Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique 2005
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The fishermen assured us that a small crocodile, the bava, * which often approached us when we were bathing, contributes also to the destruction of the fish.
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The name of bava, baveuse, has misled M. Depons; he takes this reptile for a fish of our seas, the Blennius pholis.
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The last kind is much hunted by the Indians, who, although they eat parts of all these creatures, are fonder of the flesh of the bava than of any of the others.
Popular Adventure Tales Mayne Reid 1850
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