banting

A species of wild cattle native to Southeast Asia; also a historical weight-loss diet popularized in the 19th century.

• 🇫🇷Bovin sauvage d'Asie du Sud-Est ; désigne aussi un régime amaigrissant historique populaire au XIXe siècle.

1. A wild ox native to the Malay Archipelago and Southeast Asia. C2 formal scientific

   A large, dark-coated bovine species (Bos javanicus) with distinctive white stockings on the lower legs and a white rump patch, inhabiting forests and grasslands of Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia, and Vietnam; also known as tembadau. It is the wild ancestor of domestic Bali cattle and is currently listed as endangered.

   • The banting grazed peacefully in the dense tropical forest clearing.
   • Conservationists have established protected areas to preserve the remaining banting population.
   • The banting is distinguished from other wild cattle by its white lower legs.
   • Local hunters reported seeing a herd of banting near the river at dawn.
   • The domestic Bali cattle is believed to have descended from the wild banting.

   🇫🇷Banteng

   Synonymes: banteng

2. A historical method of reducing body weight through a low-carbohydrate diet, named after its promoter William Banting. C2 formal british medical

   A dietary regimen for obesity, popularised in the 1860s by the English undertaker William Banting, who published a booklet describing his success in losing weight by avoiding sugar, starch, beer, and fatty foods; the term 'banting' became synonymous with slimming and was used well into the 20th century as a verb meaning 'to diet'.

   • In Victorian London, many fashionable people took up banting to maintain a slender figure.
   • The pamphlet on banting became an international bestseller in the 1860s.
   • She attributed her improved health to a strict course of banting.
   • The word 'banting' entered everyday language meaning to lose weight through careful eating.
   • His doctor recommended banting after the patient complained of breathlessness and fatigue.

   🇫🇷Méthode Banting

• bantings plural form
• bantings' possessive plural form
• banting's possessive singular form