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TAMIL NADU
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Tamil Nadu mean?
• TAMIL NADU (noun)
The noun TAMIL NADU has 1 sense:
1. a state in southeastern India on the Bay of Bengal (south of Andhra Pradesh); formerly Madras
Familiarity information: TAMIL NADU used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A state in southeastern India on the Bay of Bengal (south of Andhra Pradesh); formerly Madras
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Synonyms:
Madras; Tamil Nadu
Instance hypernyms:
province; state (the territory occupied by one of the constituent administrative districts of a nation)
Holonyms ("Tamil Nadu" 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
Eminent herpetologist and co-author of the study Romulus Whitaker from the Madras Crocodile Bank Trust and Centre for Herpetology, Tamil Nadu state, tells that India needs either region-specific antivenom or antivenom made with venoms pooled from different regions and from the species not yet used in antivenom production.”
(‘India needs region-specific snakebite antivenoms’, SciDev.Net)
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