Meanings
plural Abors
- anthropologyA member of a people of northern Assam.
No thatching grass is available, and so all the houses are thatched with a kind of plant called tara by the Abors, which is very like the tokopat used in many parts of Assam, but the lower stem of the tara is excessively thorny.
1886, Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society and Monthly Record of Geography, page 316
Synonyms & antonyms
nounlittle known Kamarupan languages
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