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Hb has 4 different meanings across 2 categories:

Noun · Proper Noun

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Noun
1

a hemoprotein composed of globin and heme that gives red blood cells their characteristic color; function primarily to transport oxygen from the lungs to the body tissues

"fish have simpler hemoglobin than mammals"

2

Initialism of horizontal branch.

Adjective
1

hard black (describing a pencil that makes lighter marks than a grade B, but darker marks than a grade H pencil)

Proper Noun
1

Initialism of Hansestadt Bremen. The German city of Bremen. (Used on licence plates and informally in other contexts.)

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