banting

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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Definition

noun Canadian physiologist who discovered insulin with C. H. Best and who used it to treat diabetes(1891-1941)
noun wild ox of the Malay Archipelago

Named after William Banting.

I'd Banting you, and fit you to run without puffing, and get on without four or five meals a day. — Jo's Boys, Louisa May Alcott
Mr. Banting, the gentleman who had the courage and good feeling to write and publish this narrative, not long before, measured 5ft. — English Eccentrics and Eccentricities, John Timbs
Between Banting Marron and Tanjong Siri are the Kaleka river, a high mountain called Maban, and then Rejong, the chief river of the Kayans. — The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido: For the Suppression of Piracy, Henry, Sir Keppel

F. G. Banting, Sir Frederick Grant Banting

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