I. ˈbōˌdō noun
( plural bodo or bodos )
Usage: usually capitalized
1.
a. : a group of peoples living in Assam chiefly along the north bank of the Brahmaputra river as far eastward as the Darrang district and working typically in clannish groups as laborers in tea plantations — called also Cachari
b. : a member of such people
2. : the language of the Bodo people
II. noun
Usage: capitalized
Etymology: New Latin
: a genus (the type of the family Bodonidae) of minute ovoid but plastic biflagellate protozoans (order Protomonodina) common in stagnant water or coprozoic and comprising numerous intestinal commensals of vertebrates as well as water and sewage organisms