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[Named after Christian Frederick Bang, author of a di ertation upon the plants of sacred history (1767).] A genus of Algæ. The species are in broad or silky tufts. băng' ing, pr. par. & a. [Eng. bang; -ing.] A. As pr. par.: In senses corresponding to those of the verb. B. As adj .: Great, large, "beating" in the sense of exceeding anything else in magnitude. (S. in Boucher , .) ( Vulgar .)