Ghats
Americanplural noun
Example Sentences
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In India's Western Ghats, a lion-tailed macaque races along a path, its infant clinging close and both pairs of eyes fixed ahead.
From BBC • Mar. 25, 2026
Four years older than me, he was dispatched to an American boarding school in Kodaikanal, a “hill station” scattered across the crevices of the Palani Hills, the eastern stretch of the Western Ghats mountain range.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 29, 2025
The Western Ghats, lush southern highlands stretching through Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, and Kerala, remain a key stronghold with nearly 12,00 elephants.
From Barron's • Oct. 15, 2025
They are indigenous to the Southern Western Ghats in Tamil Nadu, India, where they can be found on the rocks, in the trees and even on the sides of buildings.
From Salon • Apr. 2, 2024
In India they form the Nilgiri Hills, the Shevaroys and part of the Western Ghats, extending southward to Cape Comorin and reappearing in Ceylon.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 8 "Chariot" to "Chatelaine" by Various
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