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Encyclopedia > Nilgiri

Nilgiri, which literally means "Blue Mountain" in various Indo-Aryan languages, can refer to: The Indo-Aryan languages form a subgroup of the Indo-Iranian languages, thus belonging to the Indo-European family of languages. ...

  • Nilgiris (mountains), a range of mountains panning across the states of Tamil Nadu and Kerala in Southern India
  • Nilgiri, a mountain located in Balasore District of the state of Orissa in East India
  • Nilgiris (mountains in Nepal), three peaks on the east side of the Kali Gandaki valley in central Nepal
  • The Nilgiris District, a region of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu
  • Nilgiri tea, a dark intensely aromatic and flavorful tea grown around the Nilgiris in Tamil Nadu and Kerala in Southern India
  • Nilgiris (supermarket), supermarket chain in South India

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The Nilgiri Tahr Trust, Kerala, India (799 words)
Warryato is an English rendition of the Tamil term for the Nilgiri tahr.
The Nilgiri tahr is a stocky goat in which both sexes have a short, coarse pelage and a bristly mane a few centimeters long, in contrast to the male Himalayan tahr which has a long, shaggy mane on the shoulders, throat and chest.
The front of the horn of the Nilgiri tahr is almost flat with the keel confined to the inner edge, whereas the horn of the Himalayan tahr has a prominent keel in front.
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