bombil

plural bombils

1. The lizardfish (Harpadon nehereus), the Bombay duck, or bummalo, native to the Arabian Sea.

   Those who plunge into the novel soon find themselves thrashing in a sea of words and sentences (“On Maganchand Road the thela-wallahs already had their fruit piled high, and the fishsellers were laying out bangda and bombil and paaplet on their slabs”) unencumbered by italics or explication.

   2007 January 7, Paul Gray, “Gangsta Raj”, in New York Times