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Wiktionary
n. 1 A belt of marshy land, which lies between the foothills of the Himalayas and the plains. 2 A terai hat.
Wikipedia
The Terai ( ) is a plain region of Nepal and the plain land region in Bangladesh, Bhutan and India that lies in south of the outer foothills of the Himalaya, the Siwalik Hills, and north of the Indo-Gangetic Plain of the Ganges, Brahmaputra and their tributaries. This lowland belt is characterised by tall grasslands, scrub savannah, sal forests and clay rich swamps. In northern India, the Terai spreads eastward from the Yamuna River across Himachal Pradesh, Haryana, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh and Bihar. The Terai is part the Terai-Duar savanna and grasslands ecoregion. Corresponding parts in West Bengal, Bangladesh, Bhutan and Assam east to the Brahmaputra River are called ' Dooars'. In Nepal, the Terai lies at an altitude of between and comprises more than 50 wetlands. North of the Terai rises the Bhabhar, a narrow but continuous belt of forest about wide.
Terai or Tarāī (Hindi and Nepali: तराई) are plains south of the outermost Siwalik foothills of the Himalayas spanning India, Nepal and Bhutan.
Terai or Tarai may also refer to:
- Inner Terai Valleys of Nepal, low valleys immediately north of the Siwaliks
- Hat Terrai Gurkha, a type of slouch hat worn by Gurkhas and other soldiers in parts of the former British Empire
- Terai, Ishikawa, a former town in Japan
- Terai Station, a railway station in Nomi, Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan
- Tak (function), a mathematical function used in computer benchmarking
- Bibhu Prasad Tarai (born 1964), Indian politician
- Shin Terai, Japanese musician and producer
Usage examples of "terai".
This imposing gang, whose declared object was dacoity, led a roving life in the jungles of the Terai and Bhabar, their activities extending from Gonda in the east to Saharanpur in the west, a distance of several hundred miles, with occasional raids into the adjoining province of the Punjab.
According to Hodgson it also occurs in the Himalayan Terai, probably however only towards the eastern portion, and here it is rare, for I have spoken to many sportsmen who have hunted in various parts of the Terai, from Sikhim to Rohilkund, and none have ever come across the gaur at the foot of the Himalayas.
I remember meeting a distinguished man in India, who had the reputation of being a great shikaree, who told me that the greatest temptation he had ever had in his life was to shoot a giant snake which he had come across in the Terai of Upper India.
Terai and Bhabar Government Estates, and by reason of the large amount of the milk of human kindness that he was endowed with he had endeared himself to the large population, embracing all castes and creeds, living in the many thousands of square miles of country he ruled over.
Superintendent of the Terai and Bhabar, Anderson had only to perform a part of the duties that had been performed by his predecessor Ramsay, but he had wide administrative powers, and that afternoon, while our tents were being pitched on the camping ground at Boksar, Anderson told the assembled people to sit down, adding that he would listen to any complaints they had to make and receive any petitions they wished to present.
The wide-brimmed terai hat that Flynn had loaned him came down to his ears, and the razor edges of the elephant grass had shredded his trouser legs and stripped the polish from his boots.
As he paid for the ticket with the old man's sovereigns, he had a vivid mental picture of the old man on the stoep of Andersland, with his great spiky whiskers and the old terai hat pulled low over his pale calm eyes.
It was as distinctively his as the tweed coat and Terai hat that hung behind the door.
She had passed on to him also her finc looks, classical Teutonic features, and the dense curls that now hung to his shoulders from under the wide terai hat with the waving bunch of ostrich feathers stuck jauntily in the puggaree.