Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In southern India, a thicket or jungle.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) See
sola .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A wild plant found in
Bengal andAssam , having a milky-white, spongypith used for the manufacture ofpith helmets and decorative artefacts.
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Examples
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The Forest Department and DTPC offers guided treks inside this magnificent shola which is now notified as a National Park.
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Doesn't matter when you did it, the point is, he supports it just like Billary. shola
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Every twelve years, the blue flowers of Neelakurunji (Phlebophyllum kunthianum) impart a blue hue to these grassland-shola mountains.
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In the shola forests in particular, dioecy is quite prevalent among the Lauraceae and Moraceae.
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The grasslands that surround the shola forests consist of several fire - and frost-resistant grasses: Chrysopogon zeylanicus, Cymbopogon flexuosus, Arundinella ciliata, Arundinella mesophylla, Arundinella tuberculata, Themeda tremula, and Sehima nervosum.
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Large expanses of high-elevation, undulating grasslands interspersed with patches of stunted shola forests harbor the endemic Nilgiri tahr and India's largest elephant population.
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The montane shola-grassland complexes occur between 1,900 and 2,220 m.
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The habitat types include the wet montane evergreen forests and shola-grassland complexes in the higher elevations.
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At higher altitudes, there are shola-type forests characterized by Phoenix robusta, Pterospermum acerifolium, and Clematis nutans.
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The rare and endemic Nilgiri tahr (Hemitragus hylocrius) is currently limited to a narrow, 400-kilometer (km) stretch of shola-grassland mosaic, from the Nilgiri Hills to the Ashambu Hills.
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