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Meaning of banting

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  Banting
      n 1: Canadian physiologist who discovered insulin with C. H.
           Best and who used it to treat diabetes(1891-1941) [syn:
           {Banting}, {F. G. Banting}, {Sir Frederick Grant Banting}]
      2: wild ox of the Malay Archipelago [syn: {banteng}, {banting},
         {tsine}, {Bos banteng}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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