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MAHARASHTRA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Maharashtra mean?
• MAHARASHTRA (noun)
The noun MAHARASHTRA has 1 sense:
1. a state in west-central India
Familiarity information: MAHARASHTRA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A state in west-central India
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
province; state (the territory occupied by one of the constituent administrative districts of a nation)
Holonyms ("Maharashtra" is a part of...):
Bharat; India; Republic of India (a republic in the Asian subcontinent in southern Asia; second most populous country in the world; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1947)
Context examples
However, Himmat Saluba Bawaskar, an expert in internal medicine at the Bawaskar Hospital and Research Center, Maharashtra state, tells that in his 40-year clinical experience he has observed that snakebites associated with the ‘big four’ mostly respond well to the currently available polyvalent antivenom.
(‘India needs region-specific snakebite antivenoms’, SciDev.Net)
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