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What does Assam mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word Assam? Here's what it means.

Proper noun
  1. A state in north-eastern India.
  2. (historical) The former realm it was named after.
  3. A black tea named after the above Indian region where it is grown.
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Although latex was tapped from trees in parts of Assam, all the rubber from the East Indies got to be called India rubber.
The world of the hoolock gibbons in the Borajan reserve forest in Assam is dying, thanks to illegal tree-felling.
Most teas from India are black and two well-known examples are Assam and Darjeeling.
The same story was repeated during another epidemic of brain fever in Assam.
Media reports in Assam suggest that the Bodo leadership has okayed the proposals.
The late seventies show the explosion of resentment among the Assamese people, in the form of a massive agitation, commonly known as the Assam agitation.

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