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Tebu

The word Tebu can refer to

  • the Tubu people in Chad, Niger and Libya
    • the Tebu languages spoken by the Tubu people
  • Tebu is also a name for sugar cane in Indonesia
  • TEBU Abrv. in railroad terminology, a "Tractive Effort Booster Unit", or Slug
  • Teerbedrijf Uithoorn (TEBU), Dutch coal tar processing company
  • Tebu mountain, high point in Apetina, Suriname

Usage examples of "tebu".

No doubt they have inspired some of the bizarre legends about raiders like the Tebu, whose camels are said to leave no tracks and who purportedly drink the liquid from the bellies of those beasts.

French-Oriental reception-room of his luxurious villa, that he was a self-made man who had led his caravans from Siwa to Timbuctu, from Wadai to Algiers, and had fought in a hundred fights for his property and life against the Tebu, Zouaia, Chambaa, Bedouin, and Touareg robbers of the desert.