shola
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edit- Rhymes: -əʊlə
Etymology 1
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editshola (countable and uncountable, plural sholas)
- A wild plant found in Bengal and Assam, Aeschynomene aspera, having a milky-white, spongy pith used for the manufacture of pith helmets and decorative artefacts.
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editFrom Tamil [Term?].
Noun
editshola (plural sholas)
- (India, historical) A wooded ravine; a thicket.
- 1862, Markham, Peru and India, page 356:
- At daylight […] we left the Sisipara bungalow, and rode for several miles through a valley interspersed with sholas of rhododendron trees.
- 1876, Sir M. E. Grant-Duff, Notes of Indian Journey, page 202:
- Here and there in the hollows were little jungles; sholas, as they are called.
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