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Noun: banting  ban-ting
  1. Wild ox of the Malay Archipelago
    - banteng, tsine, Bos banteng
Noun: Banting  ban-ting
  1. Canadian physiologist who discovered insulin with C. H. Best and who used it to treat diabetes (1891-1941)
    - Frederick Banting, F. G. Banting, Sir Frederick Grant Banting

Derived forms: bantings

Type of: ox, physiologist, wild ox

Part of: Bos, genus Bos

Encyclopedia: Banting, William

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