Eastern Ghats

American  

plural noun

1. a low mountain range in S India along the E margin of the Deccan plateau and parallel to the coast of the Bay of Bengal.

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Eastern Ghats British  

plural noun

1. a mountain range in S India, parallel to the Bay of Bengal: united with the Western Ghats by the Nilgiri Hills; forms the E margin of the Deccan plateau

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Example Sentences

Koundinya Wildlife Sanctuary is a long, thin strip of dry deciduous forest in the Eastern Ghats, a broken chain of mountains in the lower part of India.

From Scientific American • Sep. 23, 2020

The highest summits of the Deccan, as well as of the triangular ridge that fringes Northern Hindostan, and of the Eastern Ghats, do not exceed 3,000 feet.

From From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan by Blavatsky, H. P. (Helena Petrovna)

The north-eastern part, known as the Agency tract, is occupied by spurs of the Eastern Ghats.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 2 "Gloss" to "Gordon, Charles George" by Various

About Anenge-nenge we could easily see the sub-ranges of the great Eastern Ghats, some twenty miles to the north-east.

From Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 1 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

The Eastern Ghats run in fragmentary spurs and ranges down the Madras coast.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 8 "Germany" to "Gibson, William" by Various